Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2014

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Reference ID

LSO_2014_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health [Lesotho] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Child taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: LSO2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1540

End: 1540

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

534) Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else?

PROBE TO IDENTIFY EACH TYPE OF SOURCE.

IF UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SECTOR, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE.

NAME OF PLACE(S) ____
PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL A
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CENTRE B
GOVERNMENT HEALTH POST C
OTHER PUBLIC SECTOR (SPECIFY) ____ D

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PRIVATE HOSPITAL/CLINIC E
PHARMACY F
PRIVATE DOCTOR G
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR (SPECIFY) ____ H

CHAL

CHAL HOSPITAL I
CHAL HEALTH CENTRE J
CHAL HEALTH POST K

RED CROSS HEALTH CENTER L
VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER M
FACILITY OUTSIDE LESOTHO N
OTHER SOURCE

SHOP O
TRADITION HEALER P

OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ X

Value	Category
0	Did not receive any treatment
1	Received treatment
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For young children with a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

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Concept

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

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