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Demographic and Health Survey 2007

Bangladesh, 2007
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Reference ID
BGD_2007_DHS_v01_M
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Mitra and Associates/ National Institute for Population Research and Training (NIPORT)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Diarrhea: medical treatment (h12z)

Data file: REC43

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 127
End: 127
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
All living children born in the last three/five years for H11, and children having an episode of diarrhea in the last two weeks (H11 = 1 or H11 = 2)
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes: medical treatm.
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.

Others

Notes
Whether the child was taken to a medical facility for treatment of the diarrhea. This usually includes being taken to all Public Sector facilities and all Medical Private Sector facilities except for Pharmacy. This variable is a summary of these preceding variables as is used in the final reports.
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