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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Heard of ORS for diarrhea treatment (B_DIATRORSHEARD)

Data file: NPL2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1297
End: 1298
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
648. Have you ever heard of a special product called Jeevan Ja/Navajeevan/Orestal you can get for the treatment of diarrhea? SHOW ORS PACKAGE

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
10 No
20 Yes
21 Used ORS
22 Heard of ORS
23 Recognized ORS packet
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
DIATRORSHEARD (V416) indicates whether the woman ever heard of using an oral rehydration solution (ORS) to treat diarrhea. ORS generally consists of drinking water with the addition of sugar and salt (in a homemade solution) or a commercial mixture of salt, glucose, potassium chloride, and sodium bicarbonate added to clean water.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
ORS treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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