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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 2014
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BGD_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT), Mitra and Associates, and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given zinc pills for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVZINCPIL)

Data file: BGD2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1247
End: 1247
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
522. Was he/she given any of the following at any time since he/she started having the diarrhea:

a) A fluid made from a special saline packet called ORSaline PACKET?
b) A homemade sugar-salt-water solution (laban gur)?
c) Zinc syrup?
d) Zinc tablets?

ORS PKT

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

LABAN GUR

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

ZINC SYRUP

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

ZINC TABLETS

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVZINCPIL indicates whether the child was given zinc pills or tablets, in response to a yes/no question about specific treatments given during the illness.

The related variable DIAGIVZINC indicates whether a child who recently had diarrhea was given zinc (in any form) as treatment.

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