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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 2016
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UGA_2016_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: UGA2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1779
End: 1779
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
617) CHECK 615:

ANY 'YES'
a) Was anything else given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
ALL 'NO' OR 'DON'T KNOW'
b) Was anything given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?

RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANITIMOTILITY B
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC OR TNTIMOTILITY) C
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP D

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC E
NON-ANTIBIOTIC F
UNKNOWN INJECTION G
(IV) INTRAVENOUS H

HOME REMEDY/HERBAL MEDICINE I

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 young children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

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