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Social Indicator Survey 2011-2012

Lao PDR, 2011 - 2012
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Reference ID
LAO_2011_MICS-DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health, Lao Statistics Bureau, United Nations Children’s Fund
Collection(s)
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
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Child given medicine before visiting health facility (ML7)

Data file: ch

Overview

Valid: 645
Invalid: 10613
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 194
End: 194
Width: 1
Range: 1 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Was (name) given any medicine for the fever or malaria before being taken to the health facility or village health volunteer?
Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Yes 158
24.5%
2 No 479
74.3%
8 DK 7
1.1%
9 Missing 1
0.2%
Sysmiss 10613
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.
Interviewer instructions
Circle the code corresponding to the answer given. If the response is 'Yes', skip to ML9 to learn the type of medicine given. If the child did not take any medicine for the fever or malaria before being taken to the health facility or the respondent doesn't know, skip to ML10.

Note that all response categories to this question skip ML8, to go to either ML9 or ML10.

Description

Source of information
The mother or caretaker of the child under five.
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