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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992
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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
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Child's illness before death: Convulsions (C_ILLPREDCONV)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1058
End: 1058
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
493E) During the disease that led to death, did (NAME) have convulsions?

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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 who have died, ILLPREDCONV indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported the child suffered from convulsions (rolling of the eyes and loss of consciousness) before death.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cause of death Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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