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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2014
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LSO_2014_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Lesotho] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Symptoms of TB: Coughing (B_TBSYMPCOF)

Data file: LSO2014-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1029
End: 1029
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1004B) What signs or symptoms would lead you to think that a person has tuberculosis? PROBE: Any other signs or symptoms?

RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

COUGHING A
COUGHING WITH SPUTUM B
COUGHING FOR SEVERAL WEEKS C
FEVER D
BLOOD IN SPUTUM E
LOSS OF APPETITE F
NIGHT SWEATING G
PAIN IN CHEST OR BACK H
TIREDNESS/FATIGUE I
WEIGHT LOSS J
OTHER X
NO SYMPTOMS Y
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
8 Missing
1 Yes
0 No
7 Don't know
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
TBSYMPCOF indicates whether the woman reported, in response to an open-ended question, that coughing was a symptom of tuberculosis. The similar variables TBSYMPCOFLNG and TBSYMPCOFSPU refer to persistent cough and coughing with sputum, respectively, as symptoms of tuberculosis.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
TB symptoms Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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