Definition
For women who had symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection in the past 12 months, STIADET4 indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, they reported seeking advice or treatment from a public stand-alone voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) center for this problem. This response category is country-specific to Ethiopia.
Some samples in the "STIAD" series include multiple categories that can be consolidated into a single broad response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable, while also preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.
STIADET4 is combined with STIADET3 (public VCT center) in STIADPUBVCT (all public VCT centers) for the 2005 Ethiopia sample.
IPUMS-DHS users interested in using STIADET4 are encouraged to review STIADPUBVCT for a more comprehensive response category.