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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 taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: UGA2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1701
End: 1701
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
625) Where did you seek advice or treatment?
Anywhere else?

PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE.

IF UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF PIBLIC OR PRIVATE SECTOR, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE(S).

NAME OF PLACE(S) ______________

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL A
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CENTER B
OUTREACH/MOBILE CLINIC C
FIELDWORKER/VHT D
OTHER PUBLIC SECTOR (SPECIFY) ______E

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PRIVATE HOSPITAL/CLINIC F
PHARMACY/DRUG SHOP G
PRIVATE DOCTOR H
MOBILE CLINIC I
FIRLFORKER J
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL SECOR (SPECIFY) ____K

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP L
TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER M
MARKET N

OTHER (SPECIFY) _____X
Categories
Value Category
0 Did not receive any treatment
1 Received treatment
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 a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

concept

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