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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 STI in women: Other (M_STIWOTHERMN)

Data file: LSO2004-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 666
End: 666
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
736 If a woman has a sexually transmitted infection, what symptoms might she have? Any others?
RECORD ALL SYMPTOMS MENTIONED.

ABDOMINAL PAIN A
GENITAL DISCHARGE B
FOUL SMELLING DISCHARGE C
BURNING PAIN ON URINATION D
REDNESS/INFLAMMATION IN GENITAL AREA E
SWELLING IN GENITAL AREA F
GENITAL SORES/ULCERS G
GENITAL WARTS H
GENITAL ITCHING I
BLOOD IN URINE J
LOSS OF WEIGHT K
HARD TO GET PREGNANT/HAVE A CHILD L
OTHER __________________(SPECIFY) W
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
STIWOTHERMN (MV786X) indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the man reported some other symptom as a possible symptom of an STI (sexually transmitted infection) in women. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

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