Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2006

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Reference ID

UGA_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Uganda Bureau of Statistics [Uganda] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Level of adult's vitamin A deficiency (blood test) (W_VADADULT)

Data file: UGA2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2858

End: 2858

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	No vitamin A deficiency
1	Mild/marginal vitamin A deficiency
2	Moderate vitamin A deficiency
3	Severe vitamin A deficiency
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

VADADULT reports the level of the respondent's vitamin A deficiency (none, mild/marginal, moderate, or severe), according to the results of a blood test administered during the survey.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Illness Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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