Demographic and Health Survey 2013

Namibia, 2013

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Reference ID

NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M

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Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Dec 24, 2014

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Heard of oral rehydration (v416)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Valid: 10018

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 14

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

All respondents.

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	Never heard of	699	7%
1	Used ORS	557	5.6%
2	Heard of ORS	8713	87%
9		49	0.5%

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.

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Notes

Whether the respondent has heard of the special-named oral rehydration product for treating children with diarrhea. This variable is coded 1 if the respondent had used the ORS product to treat a child in the previous two weeks, 2 if the respondent had heard of the ORS product.

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