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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's illness before death: Convulsions (C_ILLPREDCONV)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 755
End: 755
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
429. Just before death, did the child have one or more of the following symptoms?

MUSCLE SPASMS 1
CONVULSIONS 1
LOOSE STOOLS 1
RIGID BODY 1
PARALYSIS 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 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.

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