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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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Child taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: NPL2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1847
End: 1847
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
625. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else? PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE. IF UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SECTOR, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE.

NAME OF PLACE __

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC A
PHC CENTER B
HEALTH POST/SUB-HEALTH POST C
PHC OUTREACH CLINIC D
FCHV E
OTHER PUBLIC FACILITIES (SPECITY) ___ F

NON-GOVT. (NGO)

FPAN G
MARIE STOPES H
OTHER NGO FACILITIES (SPECIFY) __ I

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/NURSING HOME J
PRIVATE CLINIC K
PHARMACY L
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL FACILITIES (SPECIFY) ___ M

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP N
TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER O

OTHER (SPECIFY) __ X
Categories
Value Category
0 Did not receive any treatment
1 Received treatment
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 a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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