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Demographic and Health Survey 2011 - IPUMS Subset

Ethiopia, 2010 - 2011
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Reference ID
ETH_2010_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistical Agency [Ethiopia] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Aug 15, 2018
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Heard of ORS for diarrhea treatment (C_DIATRORSHEARD)

Data file: ETH2011-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1017
End: 1018
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
556. Have you ever heard of a special fluid made from an ORS packet, like LEMLEM, that you can get for the treatment of diarrhea?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
10 No
20 Yes
21 Used ORS
22 Heard of ORS
23 Recognized ORS packet
98 Missing
99 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
DIATRORSHEARD (V416) indicates whether the woman ever heard of using an oral rehydration solution (ORS) to treat diarrhea. ORS generally consists of drinking water with the addition of sugar and salt (in a homemade solution) or a commercial mixture of salt, glucose, potassium chloride, and sodium bicarbonate added to clean water.

concept

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