Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Final result of malaria from blood smear test (H_MLTBLOODRES)

Data file: TZA2015-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 471

End: 472

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

115. RECORD THE RESULT OF THE MALARIA RDT HERE AND IN THE ANEMIA AND MALARIA PAMPHLET.

POSITIVE 1 (GO TO 117A)
NEGATIVE 2
OTHER 6

Categories

Value	Category
00	Negative
01	Positive
02	Unreadable
03	Not present
04	Refused
05	Test undetermined
06	Sample not found in lab database
07	Other
98	Missing
99	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

MLTBLOODRES (HML32) indicates whether the household member tested positive for malaria in the blood smear test, as well as any problems in testing the sample for malaria.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Malaria testing Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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