Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2014

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Reference ID

GHA_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Sep 19, 2018

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Number of days after fever started ACT first taken (C_FEVACT1ST)

Data file: GHA2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1685

End: 1686

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
00	Same day as fever/cough
10	Next day
20	2 days after
30	3(+) days after
31	4+ days after
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 who took artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVACT1ST (ML20A) reports how many days after the fever began that the child first started taking artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is generally used to treat malaria.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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