Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 2005

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Reference ID

SEN_2005_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Humain [Sénégal] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Disposal of youngest child's stools (when not using toilet) (C_DISPOSESTOOL)

Data file: SEN2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1073

End: 1074

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

485. What do you usually do with the excrements of your (youngest) child when he/she does not use the toilet facility?

ALWAYS USES THE TOILET/LATRINE 01
THROW IT IN THE TOILET/LATRINE 02
THROW IT OUTSIDE OF THE DWELLING 03
THROW IT OUTSIDE OF THE YARD 04
BURY IT IN THE YARD 05
GET RID OF IT BY WASHING IT AWAY WITH WATER 06
USE DISPOSABLE DIAPERS 07
USE WASHABLE DIAPERS 08
DO NOT GET RID OF IT 09
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____96

Categories

Value	Category
10	Always use toilet/latrine
20	Put/rinsed in place with water
21	Put/rinsed in toilet/latrine
22	Put/rinsed in drain or ditch
23	Rinsed away stools
30	Throw away somewhere
31	Throw outside the dwelling
32	Throw outside the yard
33	Throw into garbage
34	Left out in the open
40	Buried
50	Use disposable diapers
60	Use washable diapers
70	Other
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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

DISPOSESTOOL (V465) reports how the respondent disposes of her youngest child's stools.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
General maternal and infant health Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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