Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016

Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Jan 16, 2021

Last modified

Jan 16, 2021

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Whether no treatment or advice sought for child's fever/cough (C_FEVTRENONE)

Data file: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1720

End: 1720

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	No, received treatment
1	Yes, no treatment or advice sought
8	Missing
9	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

For young children with a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTRENONE (H32Y) indicates whether no treatment or advice was sought for this illness. This variable is constructed based on the responses to the standard DHS variables H32A-H32X.

concept

Concept

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

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