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Demographic and Health Survey 2013 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2013
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Reference ID
NAM_2013_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
The Nambia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: NAM2013-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1749
End: 1749
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
524) What (else) was given to treat the diarrhoea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOTILITY B
ZINC C
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY, OR ZINC) D
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP E

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC F
NON-ANTIBIOTIC G
UNKNOWN INJECTION H

(IV) INTRAVENOUS I
HOME REMEDY/ HERBAL MEDICINE J
OTHER (SPECIFY __________) X
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 with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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