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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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Symptoms of TB: Persistent cough (W_TBSYMPCOFLNG)

Data file: LSO2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 990
End: 990
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
8 Missing
1 Yes
0 No
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
TBSYMPCOFLNG indicates whether the woman reported, in response to an open-ended question, that persistent coughing (for several weeks) was a symptom of tuberculosis. The similar variables TBSYMPCOF and TBSYMPCOFSPU refer, respectively, to "cough" and "cough with sputum" as symptoms of tuberculosis.

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