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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Child fed the same, more, or less fluid with diarrhea (C_DIAFLUIDUPDN)

Data file: MDG1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1128
End: 1129
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
465. When a child has diarrhea, should he/she be given less than usual to drink, about the same amount as usual, or more than usual?

LESS TO DRINK 1
ABOUT THE SAME 2
MORE TO DRINK 3
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Same
20 Increase
30 Decrease
31 Somewhat less
32 Much less
33 Nothing to drink
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFLUIDUPDN (H38) reports whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of fluid as usual during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFLUIDUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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