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Nepal Family Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 1996
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NPL_1996_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Known source for ORS: Public health post (C_ORSPUBHP)

Data file: NPL1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 779
End: 779
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
472A. Where can you buy or obtain a packet of ORS like Jeevan Jal?
PROBE: Where else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PUBLIC SECTOR

HOSP./DISTRICT CLINIC A
PRY./HEALTH CENTRE B
HEALTH/SUB-HEALTH POST C
MOBILE CLINIC D
FIELD WORKER E
OTHER PUBLIC (SPECIFY)_________________________F

PRIVATE SECTOR

HOSPITAL G
CLINIC/NURSING HOME H
PHARMACY I
MOBILE CLINIC J
COMM. HEALTH WORKER K
OTHER PRIVATE (SPECIFY)________________________L

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP N
TRAD. PRACTITIONER O

OTHER (SPECIFY)_________________________________X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
ORSPUBHP (V424C) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the woman reported a public health post as a source for oral rehydration solution (ORS).

ORS is a typically used to treat dehydration in individuals with diarrhea.

Some samples in the "ORS" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

concept

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