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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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Reference ID
GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Source of diarrhea treatment: Private pharmacy (C_DIATRPRIVDRUG)

Data file: GHA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1874
End: 1874
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
523. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else?

PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE AND CIRCLE THE APPROPRIATE CODE(S).

IF UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF A HOSPITAL, HEALTH CENTER, OR CLINIC IS PUBLIC OR PRIVATE MEDICAL, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE.

(NAME OF PLACE(S)) __________________

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVT HOSPITAL/POLYCLINIC A
GOVT HEALTH CENTER B
GOVT HEALTH POST/CHPS C
MOBILE CLINIC D
FIELDWORKER E
OTHER PUBLIC (SPECIFY) _____ F

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC G
PHARMACY H
PVT DOCTOR I
MOBILE CLINIC J
FIELDWORKER K
FPG/PPAG CLINIC L
MATERNITY HOME M
OTHER PRIVATE MED. (SPECIFY) ______N

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP/MARKET O
TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER P
DRUG PEDDLER Q

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
For children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIATRPRIVDRUG (H12K) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child received treatment at a private pharmacy, drug store, or dispensary.

Some samples in the "DIATR" 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.

For example, a given sample might include multiple categories for different types of private drug sources that could be combined to create a more comprehensive response category. See Comparability for more information on the specific categories combined in DIATPRIVDRUG.

Users should be careful to distinguish this variable from DIATRPUBDRUG and DIATROTHDRUG, which refer to public drug sources and informal drug sources, respectively.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Place for diarrhea treatment, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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