Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992

Reference ID

NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Days child given ORS for diarrhea treatment (C_DIAGIVORSDAYS)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1035

End: 1036

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

475) For how many days was (NAME) given (LOCAL NAME)?
IF LESS THAN 1 DAY, RECORD '00'.

DAYS___
DK 98

Categories

Value	Category
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
08	8
09	9
10	10
11	11
12	12
13	13
14	14
15	15
16	16
17	17
18	18
19	19
20	20
21	21
22	22
23	23
24	24
25	25
26	26
27	27
28	28
29	29
30	30
31	31
32	32
33	33
34	34
35	35
36	36
37	37
38	38
39	39
40	40
41	41
42	42
43	43
44	44
45	45
46	46
47	47
48	48
49	49
50	50
51	51
52	52
53	53
54	54
55	55
56	56
57	57
58	58
59	59
60	60
96	Given at health facility
97	Don't know
98	Missing
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

For young children with diarrhea in the last 2 weeks, DIAGIVORSDAYS (H13A) reports the number of days they were given an oral rehydration solution (ORS).

The related variable DIAGIVORS (H13) indicates whether the young child was given ORS at all to treat the diarrhea.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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