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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2015
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SEN_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD) [Sénégal], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Response if child gets diarrhea: Other (B_DIASHDOTH)

Data file: SEN2015-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1071
End: 1071
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
524a) If your child had diarrhea, what would you do?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

SOUGHT TREATMENT FROM HEALTH CARE ESTABLISHMENT A
GIVEN ORS/ZINC B
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
NOTHING Y
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
DIASHDOTH indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the respondent reported she would do some other thing if her child had diarrhea. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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