Demographic and Health Survey 2003 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2003

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Reference ID

GHA_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Child has fever/cough now (C_SICKNOW)

Data file: GHA2003-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1519

End: 1520

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

472A. Does (NAME) have a fever now?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
00	No
10	Yes
11	Yes, fever only
12	Yes, cough only
13	Yes, either fever or cough
14	Yes, both fever and cough
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 young children with a fever or cough in the past 2 weeks, SICKNOW (ML11) indicates whether the child currently has the fever or cough.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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