Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986

Reference ID

SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

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Jan 16, 2021

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Purpose of vaccinations (C_VACWHY)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 774

End: 775

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

432. What does a vaccine do?

PREVENTS 01
HEALS 02
IMMUNIZES 03
PREVENTS AND HEALS 04
PREVENTS AND IMMUNIZES 05
HEALS AND IMMUNIZES 06
PREVENTS, HEALS AND IMMUNIZES 07
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 08
DOESN'T KNOW 98

Categories

Value	Category
01	Prevent disease
02	Cure disease
03	Immunize against disease
04	Prevent and cure
05	Prevent and immunize
06	Cure and immunize
07	Prevent, cure, and immunize
08	Other
97	Don't know
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

VACWHY reports what the respondent, in response to an open-ended question, stated as the purpose of vaccinations.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child vaccination, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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