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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2011
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CMR_2011_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie de la Planification et de l’Aménagement du Territoire, Ministère de la Santé Publique [Cameroon] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child got same, increased, or decreased food with diarrhea (C_DIAFOODUPDN)

Data file: CMR2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1737
End: 1738
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
521) When (NAME) had diarrhea, did you give less to eat than usual, about the same amount, more than usual or nothing to eat at all?

IF LESS, PROBE:
Did you give much less than usual or a little less than usual?

MUCH LESS 1
A LITTLE LESS THAN 2
ABOUT THE SAME AMOUNT 3
MORE 4
STOPPED FOOD 5
NEVER FED 6
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Same
20 Increase
30 Decrease
31 Somewhat less
32 Much less
33 Stop entirely
40 Never gave food
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 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFOODUPDN (H39) indicates whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of food during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFOODUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

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