Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999

Reference ID

GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan et de la Coopération [Guinea] 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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Child given oral rehydration for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVORS)

Data file: GIN1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1316

End: 1317

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

459. When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she given any of the following to drink:

A fluid prepared from a special packet called ORS? SHOW ORS PACKET.
Homemade sugar-salt-water solution?
A bottle?
Soup?
Milk or infant formula?
Yogurt-based drink?
Water?
Any other liquids?

ORS PACKET

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

HOMEMADE SUGAR-SALT-WATER SOLUTION

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

A BOTTLE

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

SOUP

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

MILK OR INFANT FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

YOGURT-BASED DRINK

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

ANY OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes
21	Yes, ORS - spontaneous
22	Yes, ORS - probed
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVORS (H13) indicates whether the child was given a sugar-salt-water solution or oral rehydration solution (ORS) to treat this illness.

concept

Concept

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

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