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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., 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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Symptoms of TB: Coughing (W_TBSYMPCOF)

Data file: NGA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1231
End: 1231
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1002A. What are the signs or symptoms that would lead you to think a person has tuberculosis or TB? Any others?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

COUGHING A
COUGHING WITH SPUTUM B
COUGHING SEVERAL WEEKS C
FEVER D
BLOOD IN SPUTUM E
LOSS OF APPETITE F
NIGHTSWEATING G
PAIN IN CHEST H
TIREDNESS/FATIGUE I
WEIGHT LOSS J
PALENESS K
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___________ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
8 Missing
1 Yes
0 No
7 Don't know
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
TBSYMPCOF indicates whether the woman reported, in response to an open-ended question, that coughing was a symptom of tuberculosis. The similar variables TBSYMPCOFLNG and TBSYMPCOFSPU refer to persistent cough and coughing with sputum, respectively, as symptoms of tuberculosis.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
TB symptoms Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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