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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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Symptoms of TB: Weight loss (W_TBSYMPWT)

Data file: NPL2016-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1183
End: 1183
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1107B. What are the common symptoms of TB? RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

COUGH FOR MORE THAN 2 WEEKS A
FEVER IN THE EVENING SB
CHEST PAIN C
LOSS OF WEIGHT D
LOSS OF APPETITE E
HEMOPTYSIS F
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ X
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
TBSYMPWT indicates whether the woman reported, in response to an open-ended question, that weight loss was a symptom of tuberculosis.

concept

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