Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016

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Reference ID

NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Child taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: NPL2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1847

End: 1847

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

625. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else? PROBE TO IDENTIFY THE TYPE OF SOURCE. IF UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SECTOR, WRITE THE NAME OF THE PLACE.

NAME OF PLACE __

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC A
PHC CENTER B
HEALTH POST/SUB-HEALTH POST C
PHC OUTREACH CLINIC D
FCHV E
OTHER PUBLIC FACILITIES (SPECITY) ___ F

NON-GOVT. (NGO)

FPAN G
MARIE STOPES H
OTHER NGO FACILITIES (SPECIFY) __ I

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/NURSING HOME J
PRIVATE CLINIC K
PHARMACY L
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL FACILITIES (SPECIFY) ___ M

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP N
TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER O

OTHER (SPECIFY) __ X

Value	Category
0	Did not receive any treatment
1	Received treatment
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For young children with a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

concept

Concept

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

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