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2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015
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Reference ID
SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Aug 01, 2025
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Any member who got sick during the Ebola outbreak but did not seek medical attention for fear of getting Ebola (SL2015A_MEDEBOLA)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 273
End: 273
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
E5. Have there been any members of the household who got sick during the Ebola outbreak but did not seek medical attention at a health facility?</p>
<div class="i1">[] 1. Yes<br />[] 2. No<br />[] 3. Don't know<br /><br />If 1 complete the following table.</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 Unknown
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.
Interviewer instructions
<span class="h3"> Section 7: Ebola socio-economic impact</span></p>

<p>236. Enumerators should ensure that questions in this section are asked in a polite and skillful manner in order to get cooperation from the respondents.</p>

<p>237. Remember that this section is administered at household level and not at structure level. There is the tendency for respondents to give you information about the structure and not their households.</p>

<p><span class="em">E5- Sick household members who did not seek medical treatment at a health facility for fear of contracting the EVD. </span>
<br />246. This question seeks to find out behaviours of households in seeking medical treatment at health facilities for fear of getting infected with the Ebola virus disease.</p>

<p>247. Ask if there was any person in the household who was sick since the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in the country but did not seek medical treatment in any Health facility because he/she feared getting infected with EVD. If the answer is 'yes', write "1". If the answer is 'no', write "2". If the respondent does not know, write "3".</p>

<p>248. If the answer to E5 is '1', for each member who did not seek medical treatment at a health facility for fear of Contracting the EVD, write the sex and age of the person. For females aged 10 to 54 years who did not seek medical treatment at a health facility for fear of contracting the EVD, write the pregnancy status using the codes on the questionnaire.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether any member in the household got sick during the Ebola outbreak but did not seek medical attention for fear of getting Ebola.
Universe
Sierra Leone 2015: Occupied private households [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Household Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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