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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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Reference ID
LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of days told to take TB medicine (W_TB15TRMEDREC)

Data file: LSO2009-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 997
End: 998
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1001I How long were you told to take the medicine?

NUMBER OF MONTHS ______
DON'T KNOW/DON'T REMEMBER 9998
Categories
Value Category
97 Don't know
99 NIU (not in universe)
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
TB15TRMEDREC reports the number of days the health professional who diagnosed the respondent with tuberculosis recommended taking medicine to treat the illness.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
TB experience Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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