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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2008 - 2009
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MDG_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Industrie [Madagascar] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: MDG2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1642
End: 1642
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
530. What (else) was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOTILITY B
ZINC C
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY, OR ZINC) D
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP E

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC F
NON-ANTIBIOTIC G
UNKNOWN INJECTION H

(IV) INTRAVENOUS I
HOME REMEDY/HERBAL MEDICINE J
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ X
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 with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

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