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Demographic and Health Survey 1989 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1989
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Reference ID
KEN_1989_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Council for Population and Development [Kenya] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Source of medical treatment for child's last episode of cough (C_COUTRWHO)

Data file: KEN1989-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 591
End: 591
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
434. Was (NAME) taken to a private doctor, a hospital or clinic, a traditional healer, or any other place to treat the problem? IF YES: Where was he/she taken?

PRIVATE DOCTOR 1
HOSPITAL/CLINIC 2
TRADITIONAL HEALER 3
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ 4
CHILD NOT TAKEN 5
Categories
Value Category
0 No treatment
1 Private doctor
2 Hospital/clinic
3 Traditional healer
4 Health center
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
5 Dispensary
6 Other
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 cough in the past 4 weeks, COUTRWHO (H32) indicates where the child was taken for medical treatment for the last cough episode.

concept

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