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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1997
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SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et du Plan [Senegal] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: SEN1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 864
End: 864
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
470. What was given to treat the diarrhea?
Anything else?
RECORD EVERYTHING MENTIONED.

LIQUID FROM ORS PACKET A
LIQUID MADE AT HOME B
ANTIBIOTIC C
OTHER PILL OR SYRUP D
INJECTION E
(IV) INTRAVENOUS/SERUM F
HOMEMADE REMEDIES/MEDICINAL PLANTS G
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____H
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 with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

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