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

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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).

Value	Category
0	No
2	Yes, last two weeks
8	Don't know

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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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