Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988

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Reference ID

GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Source of medical treatment for diarrhea (C_DIATRESRC)

Data file: GHA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 754

End: 755

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

425. Did you take (NAME) to a private doctor, or to a hospital or clinic to treat the diarrhea (the last time)?

DOCTOR 1
HOSPITAL/CLINIC 2
NO 3

Categories

Value	Category
00	No treatment
10	Private doctor
20	Hospital/clinic
21	Public hospital
22	Health center
30	Traditional healer
40	Other facility
41	Dispensary
42	Pharmacy or health station
50	Community health worker
60	Other, unspecified
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 children under age 5 with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIATRESRC (H12) reports the source of advice or treatment for this illness.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Place for diarrhea treatment, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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