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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: Swelling of limbs or body (C_ILLPREDSWELL)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 767
End: 767
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
428. During the illness that led to death, did the child present one or more of the following symptoms?

INCAPABLE OF SUCKLING 1
INCAPABLE OF CRYING 1
HIGH FEVER 1
RASH 1
COUGH I
RED EYES 1
COUGH AND VOMITING 1
COUGHING FITS 1
LOOSE STOOLS 1
RED HAIR 1
SWOLLEN FEET 1
ACCIDENT 1
DOESN'T KNOW 1
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
7 Don't know
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, ILLPREDSWELL indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported the child suffered from swelling of the limbs or body before death.

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