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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
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Symptoms of TB: Other (C_TBSYMPOTH)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 991
End: 991
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
863 What signs or symptoms would lead you to think that a person has tuberculosis?
PROBE: Any others?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

COUGHING A
COUGHING WITH SPUTUM B
COUGHING FOR SEVERAL
WEEKS C
FEVER D
BLOOD IN SPUTUM E
LOSS OF APPETITE F
NIGHT SWEATING G
PAIN IN CHEST OR BACK H
TIREDNESS/FATIGUE I
WEIGHT LOSS J
OTHER _________________(SPECIFY) X
NO SYMPTOMS Y
DON'T KNOW . Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
TBSYMPOTH indicates whether the woman reported some other symptom (unspecified in the data) as a symptom of tuberculosis. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the symptoms of TB reported in a given sample.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
TB symptoms Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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