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Demographic and Health Survey 1988-1989 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1988 - 1989
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UGA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Department of Geography (Makerere University), Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (Makerere University) [Uganda] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Child had cough/difficult breathing recently (C_COURECENT)

Data file: UGA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 657
End: 658
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
433) Has (NAME) suffered from severe cough or difficult or rapid breathing in the last four weeks?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
Categories
Value Category
10 No
20 Yes
21 Yes, past four weeks/month
22 Yes, last 24 hours
23 Yes, last 2 to 14 days
24 Yes, last two weeks
97 Don't know
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
For surviving children under age 5, COURECENT (H31) indicates whether the child experienced a cough in the past 2 weeks. Question wording differences may limit the comparability of COURECENT; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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