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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's fever/cough treated by: Home remedy or herbal medicine (C_FEVGIVHERB)

Data file: ZWE1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 771
End: 772
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
438) As treatment, for problem(s) did (NAME) receive:

Home remedies?
Injection (Penicillin)?
Oral Antibiotics?
Other tablets?
Anything else? IF YES: What else?

HOME REMEDIES

YES 1 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)

INJECTION (PENICILLIN)

YES 1 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)

ORAL ANTIBIOTICS

YES 1 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)

OTHER TABLETS

YES 1 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)

ANYTHING ELSE
IF YES: What else?

YES 1 (SPECIFY) __________ (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
Categories
Value Category
16 Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever or difficult/rapid breathing
00 No
10 Yes, child given traditional herbs/medicines
11 Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever
12 Given home remedy/herbal medicine for cough
13 Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever or cough
14 Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever and cough
15 Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever or convulsions
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 young children with a fever or cough in the past 2 to 4 weeks, FEVGIVHERB indicates whether the child was given a home remedy or herbal medicine.

A few samples ask separately about drugs taken for fever and drugs taken 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 the drug, and the second digit indicates the child's illness:


11: The child was given the remedy for a fever
12: The child was given the remedy for a cough
13: The child was given the remedy for a fever or a cough
14: The child was given the remedy for both a fever and a cough
15: The child was given the remedy for a fever or convulsions
16: The child was given the remedy for a fever or difficult/rapid breathing


See Comparability for more information.

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