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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2001
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MLI_2001_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique (DNSI) [Mali], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given pills or syrups (unspecified) for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVPILSYR)

Data file: MLI2001-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1510
End: 1510
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
480. What else was given to treat diarrhea?
Something else?
RECORD EVERYTHING MENTIONED.

PILL OR SYRUP A
INJECTION B
(IV) INTRAVENOUS C
HOMEMADE REMEDIES/PLANTS D
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVPILSYR (H15) indicates whether the child was given some unspecified other pills or syrup to treat this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific medications included in a given survey,

For Phase 5 forward, the similar variable DIAGIVPILUNK reports whether the child was given an "unknown" type of pill or syrup to treat diarrhea.

concept

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