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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2006
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NPL_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Child taken to medical facility for diarrhea treatment (C_DIATREMEDFAC)

Data file: NPL2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1570
End: 1570
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
520. Did you seek advice or treatment for the diarrhea from any source?

YES 1
NO 2 (SKIP TO 524A)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, treatment at medical facility
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 last two weeks, DIATREMEDFAC (H12Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment. Based on standard DHS variables H12A to H12X, DIATREMEDFAC indicates whether the child was taken to any of the facilities listed under the "Public Sector" and "Medical Private Sector" headers, except for Pharmacy. The exact sources of treatment included in this grouping may vary across samples; see Comparability.

concept

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