Demographic and Health Survey 1994 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 1994

Reference ID

CIV_1994_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère Délégué Auprès du Premier Ministre, Chargé de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan [Côte d'Ivoire] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Child given pills or syrups (unspecified) for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVPILSYR)

Data file: CIV1994-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1052

End: 1052

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

470) What was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

ORS LIQUID A
HOMEMADE LIQUID B
PILL OR SYRUP C
INJECTION D
IV DRIP E
GASTRIC TUBE F
HOME REMEDIES/HERBAL MEDICINE G
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ H

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVPILSYR (H15) indicates whether the child was given some unspecified other pills or syrup to treat this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific medications included in a given survey,

For Phase 5 forward, the similar variable DIAGIVPILUNK reports whether the child was given an "unknown" type of pill or syrup to treat diarrhea.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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