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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1459
End: 1459
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
480 What (else) was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS MENTIONED.

PILL OR SYRUP A
INJECTION B
(I.V.) INTRAVENOUS C
HOME REMEDIES/HERBAL MEDICINES D
OTHER __________(SPECIFY) X
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 young children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

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