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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 2012
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NER_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique (INS), Ministère des Finances [Niger] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given pills or syrups (unspecified) for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVPILSYR)

Data file: NER2012-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1690
End: 1690
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ZINC C
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY OR ZINC) D
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP E
ANTIPARASITE K
(IV) INTRAVENOUS OR DRIP 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 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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