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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
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Symptoms of TB: Coughing with sputum (C_TBSYMPCOFSPU)

Data file: NPL2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1173
End: 1173
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1107B. What are the common symptoms of TB? RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

COUGH FOR MORE THAN 2 WEEKS A
FEVER IN THE EVENING SB
CHEST PAIN C
LOSS OF WEIGHT D
LOSS OF APPETITE E
HEMOPTYSIS F
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
8 Missing
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
TBSYMPCOFSPU indicates whether the woman reported, in response to an open-ended question, that coughing with sputum was a symptom of tuberculosis. The similar variables TBSYMPCOF and TBSYMPCOFLNG refer, respectively, to "cough" and "persistent cough" as symptoms of tuberculosis.

concept

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