Home / Central Data Catalog / IND_2015_DHS_V01_M_V02_A_IPUMS / variable [C]
central

[India] National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2015 - 2016
Get Microdata
Reference ID
IND_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Sep 19, 2018
Last modified
Sep 19, 2018
Page views
177164

Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: IND2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1923
End: 1923
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
528. What (else) was given to treat the diarrhoea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOTILITY B
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY, OR ZINC) C
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP D

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC E
NON-ANTIBIOTIC F
UNKNOWN INJECTION G
INTRAVENOUS (IV) 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
Back to Catalog