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's fever/cough treated by: Home remedy or herbal medicine (C_FEVGIVHERB)

Data file: CIV1994-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1004

End: 1005

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

450) Has (NAME) ever been ill with a fever at any time during the last 2 weeks?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

*****

451) Has (NAME) been ill with a cough at any time in the last 2 weeks?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 455)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO 455)

*****

457) What was given to treat the fever/cough? Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

INJECTIONS A
PILL B
ANTI-MALARIAL C
COUGH SYRUP D
HOME REMEDY/MEDICAL PLANTS E
OTHER (SPECIFY)_____ F

Categories

Value	Category
16	Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever or difficult/rapid breathing
00	No
10	Yes, child given traditional herbs/medicines
11	Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever
12	Given home remedy/herbal medicine for cough
13	Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever or cough
14	Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever and cough
15	Given home remedy/herbal medicine for fever or convulsions
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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.

Description

Definition

For young children with a fever or cough in the past 2 to 4 weeks, FEVGIVHERB indicates whether the child was given a home remedy or herbal medicine.

A few samples ask separately about drugs taken for fever and drugs taken for cough. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in composite coding. A first digit of 1 indicates the child received the drug, and the second digit indicates the child's illness:

11: The child was given the remedy for a fever
12: The child was given the remedy for a cough
13: The child was given the remedy for a fever or a cough
14: The child was given the remedy for both a fever and a cough
15: The child was given the remedy for a fever or convulsions
16: The child was given the remedy for a fever or difficult/rapid breathing

See Comparability for more information.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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