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Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-16

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
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TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF, Minnesota Population Center
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Source of fever/cough treatment: Informal drug seller (other) (C_FEVTROTHDRUG)

Data file: TZA2015-C

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: -
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Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No
10 Yes, sought treatment at informal drug seller
11 Sought treatment for fever
12 Sought treatment for cough
13 Sought treatment for fever or cough
14 Sought treatment for fever and cough
15 Sought treatment for cough and convulsions
16 Sought treatment for convulsions
17 Sought treatment for fever or rapid/difficult breathing
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, FEVTROTHDRUG indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child received treatment from an informal drug or street vendor for this illness.

A few samples ask separately about treatment given for fever and treatment given for cough. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in composite coding. A first digit of 1 indicates the child received treatment from a given source, and the second digit indicates the child's illness. A code of "11" indicates the child received treatment for a fever; a code of "12" indicates the child received treatment for a cough; a code of "13" indicates the child received treatment for a fever or a cough; a code of "14" indicates the child received treatment for both a fever and a cough; a code of "15" indicates the child received treatment for a cough and convulsions; a code of "16" indicates the child received treatment for convulsions; a code of "17" indicates the child received treatment for a fever or rapid/difficult breathing. See Comparability for more information.

IPUMS-DHS users should be careful to distinguish FEVTROTHDRUG from FEVTRPUBDRUG (public drug sources) and FEVTRPRIVDRUG (private, formal drug sources).

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Source for respiratory treatment, general Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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