Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997

Reference ID

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)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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Child had fever in last two/four weeks (C_FEVRECENT)

Data file: MDG1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1095

End: 1096

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

449. Has (NAME) been ill with a fever at any time in the last 2 weeks?

YES 1
NO 2
DOESN'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes, fever
21	Yes, fever in last 2 weeks
22	Yes, fever in last 4 weeks
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 born in the three to five years preceding the survey, FEVRECENT (H22) indicates whether the child had a fever in recent weeks (most often in the previous two weeks). See Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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