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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given home remedy or herbal medicine for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVHERB)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 744
End: 744
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
424. What was done to treat the diarrhea?
RECORD '1' FOR ALL THE TREATMENTS MENTIONED.

ORS 1
SUGAR, SALT AND WATER SOLUTION 1
RICE BROTH 1
BAOBAB FRUIT 1
MEDICINAL PLANTS 1
GANIDAN, SYRUP AND OTHER PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS 1
HOSPITAL, PMI, FREE CLINIC 1
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVHERB (H15D) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given home remedies or herbal medicines to treat this illness.

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