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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child given other type of pill (not antibiotic, antimotility, or zinc) for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHTYPPIL)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1855
End: 1855
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
530. What (else) was given to treat the diarrhoea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENT GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOBILITY B
ZINC C
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY, OR ZINC) D
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP E

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC F
NON-ANTIBOIOTIC G
UNKNOWN INJECTION H
(IV) INTRAVENOUS 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, DIAGIVOTHTYPPIL (H15F) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given some other type of pill or syrup (not antibiotic, antimotility, or zinc) to treat this illness. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

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