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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015
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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Sign child needs treatment: Other (W_TROTHSYMP)

Data file: AFG2015-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2623
End: 2623
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
556A. Sometimes children have severe illness and should be taken immediately to a health facility. What types of symptoms would cause you to take your child to a health facility right away? Any other symptoms?

CHILD NOT ABLE TO DRINK OR BREASTFEED A
CHILD BECOMES SICKER B
CHILD DEVELOPS A FEVER C
CHILD HAS FAST BREATHING D
CHILD HAS DIFFICULT BREATHING E
CHILD HAS BLOOD IN STOOL F
CHILD IS DRINKING POORLY G
OTHER_____________X
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
TROTHSYMP indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that a child with some other symptom should immediately be taken to a health facility. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific response categories included in a particular sample.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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