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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 1988
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ZWE_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office [Zimbabwe] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Child had cough/difficult breathing recently (C_COURECENT)

Data file: ZWE1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 763
End: 764
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
436) In the last 4 weeks has (NAME) suffered from:

Cough?
Fast or difficult breathing?
Noisy breathing?
Runny nose?
Sore throat?
Earache?
Fever?
Rash?

COUGH

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

FAST OR DIFFICULT BREATHING

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

NOISY BREATHING

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

RUNNY NOSE

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

SORE THROAT

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

EARACHE

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

FEVER

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

RASH

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 No
20 Yes
21 Yes, past four weeks/month
22 Yes, last 24 hours
23 Yes, last 2 to 14 days
24 Yes, last two weeks
97 Don't know
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 surviving children under age 5, COURECENT (H31) indicates whether the child experienced a cough in the past 2 weeks. Question wording differences may limit the comparability of COURECENT; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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