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Demographic and Health Survey 2017 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2017
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SEN_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) [Sénégal], et ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given antibiotics for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVANTIB)

Data file: SEN2017-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1840
End: 1840
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
615) Was (NAME) given any of the following to drink at any time since (NAME) started having the diarrhea?

A) A fluid made from a special packet called (local name for the ORS packet)?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

b) A pre-packaged ORS liquid?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

c) A government-recommended homemade fluid?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

d) Zinc tablets or syrup?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVANTIB (H15A) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given antibiotics to treat this illness.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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