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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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Response if child gets diarrhea: Give child ORS/zinc (W_DIASHDORS)

Data file: SEN1986-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1442
End: 1442
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
431. If one or your children had a case of acute diarrhea, how would you treat it?

ORS 1
SUGAR, SALT, WATER SOLUTION 1
RICE BROTH 1
POTATO PUREE 1
HOSPITAL, PMI, FREE CLINIC 1
BAOBAB FRUIT 1
MEDICINAL PLANTS 1
GANIDAN, SYRUP AND OTHER PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS 1
OTHER 1
DOESN'T KNOW 1
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
DIASHDORS indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the respondent reported she would give her child ORS or zinc if the child had diarrhea.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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