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Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1998

Cameroon, 1998
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CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M
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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population (BUCREP)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Had cough in last two weeks (h31)

Data file: REC43

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 151
End: 151
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 9
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
All living children born in the last three/five years for H22 and H31, and children suffering from fever and/or cough in the last two weeks for H32 to H38 (H22 = 1 or H31 = 1 or H31 = 2).
Categories
Value Category
0 No
2 Yes, last two weeks
8 Don't know
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.

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Notes
Whether the child had suffered from a cough in the last two weeks and whether the child had been ill with the cough in the last 24 hours. Code 1 indicates that the child had been ill in the last 24 hours, code 2 indicates that the child had been ill with the cough in the last two weeks, but not the last 24 hours. Code 1 is country specific for DHS III.

Variables H31 to H40 relate to the prevalence and treatment of fever and/or cough in the two weeks preceding the interview.
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