Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 2014

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Reference ID

KEN_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Child given zinc for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVZINC)

Data file: KEN2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1703

End: 1704

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Yes, spontaneous
12	Yes, probed
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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, DIAGIVZINC (H15E) indicates whether the child was given zinc to treat this illness.

The World Health Organization reports here [URL omitted from DDI.] that "Zinc supplementation has been found to reduce the duration and severity of diarrheal episodes and the likelihood of subsequent infections for 2-3 months."

concept

Concept

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

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