Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986

Reference ID

SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Jan 16, 2021

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Child had diarrhea recently (C_DIARRECENT)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 739

End: 740

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

422. Has (NAME) had diarrhea during the past two weeks?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 425)
DOESN'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 425)

Categories

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes, recently
21	Yes, last 24 hours
22	Yes, last 2-14 days
23	Yes, last two weeks
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 surviving children under age 5, DIARRECENT (H11) indicates whether the child had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks. Question wording differences affect the comparability of DIARRECENT; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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