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Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13 - IPUMS Subset

Mali, 2012 - 2013
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MLI_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Cellule de Planification et de Statistiques (CPS/SSDSPF), Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT), Centre d’Études et d’Information Statistiques (INFO-STAT) [Mali] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Aug 15, 2018
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Source of self-medication for recent illness/injury (H_ILLHCSELFMEDSRC)

Data file: MLI2012-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 724
End: 724
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
903A) Where did you go to obtain the drugs for (NAME)'s self-medication?

PHARMACY 1
DRUG VENDOR (TRAVELLING, MARKET) 2
HARVESTING PLANTS 3
DRUGS AVAILABLE AT HOME 4 (GO TO 903C)
OTHERS___________ (SPECIFY) 8
Categories
Value Category
1 Pharmacy
2 Informal drug vendor
3 Picking plants
4 Medicine already at home
5 Other
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
ILLHCSELFMEDSRC reports the source of the medication the household member took to self-medicate (without a prescription or a recommendation from a health professional) for a recent illness or injury.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
General healthcare Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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