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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-2009 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2008 - 2009
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Reference ID
MDG_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Industrie [Madagascar] 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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May 14, 2020
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Had SP/Fansidar at home for child's fever/cough (C_FEVSPHOME)

Data file: MDG2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1545
End: 1545
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
549. Did you already have (NAME OF DRUG FROM 547) at home when the child became ill? ASK SEPARATELY FOR EACH OF THE DRUGS 'A' THROUGH 'G' THAT THE CHILD IS RECORDED AS HAVING TAKEN IN 547. IF 'YES' FOR ANY DRUG, CIRCLE CODE FOR THAT DRUG. IF NO FOR ALL DRUGS, CIRCLE 'Y'.

ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS

SP/FANSIDAR A
CHLOROQUINE B
AMODIAQUINE C
QUININE D
COMBINATION WITH ARTEMISININ E
OTHER ANTI-MALARIAL F

ANTIBIOTICS

PILL/SYRUP G

NO DRUG AT HOME Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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 young children who took SP/Fansidar for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVSPHOME (ML15C) indicates whether their home already had the SP/Fansidar at hand when the child became ill.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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