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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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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
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Jan 16, 2021
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Sought STI advice from: Voluntary counseling testing (VCT) center (private) (C_STIADPRIVVCT)

Data file: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 915
End: 915
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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 women who had symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection in the past 12 months, STIADPRIVVCT indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported seeking advice or treatment from private voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) center for this problem.

Users should be careful to distinguish this variable from STIADPUBVCT (public VCT center).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Source for STI advice, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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