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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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Sep 19, 2018
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Child given recommended home solution with salt and sugar for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVSOLUT)

Data file: MDG2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1640
End: 1641
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

A) A fluid made from a special packet?
B) A pre-packaged ORS liquid?
C) A government-recommended homemade fluid?

FLUID FROM SPECIAL PACKET

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

ORS LIQUID

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

RECOMMENDED HOMEMADE FLUID

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Yes
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
00 No
11 Yes, spontaneous
12 Yes, probed
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, DIAGIVSOLUT (H14) indicates whether the child was given a recommended homemade solution to treat this illness.

concept

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