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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2000
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Reference ID
MWI_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Source of fever/cough treatment: Mission health center (Malawi) (C_FEVTRMW4)

Data file: MWI2000-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1491
End: 1492
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
468. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL A
GOVERNMENT HEALTH CENTER B
GOVERNMENT HEALTH POST C
MOBILE CLINIC D
FIELD WORKER E
OTHER PUBLIC (SPECIFY) _____ F

MISSION

HOSPITAL G
HEALTH CENTER H
MOBILE CLINIC I

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PRIVATE HOSPITAL/CLINIC J
PHARMACY K
PRIVATE DOCTOR L
MOBILE CLINIC M
FIELD WORKER N
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL (SPECIFY) ____ O

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP P
TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER Q

OTHER (SPECIFY) _____ X
Categories
Value Category
00 No
10 Yes, sought treatment at mission health center
11 Sought treatment for fever
12 Sought treatment for cough
13 Sought treatment for fever or cough
14 Sought treatment for fever and cough
15 Sought treatment for cough and convulsions
16 Sought treatment for convulsions
17 Sought treatment for fever or rapid/difficult breathing
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 young children with a fever or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTRMW4 indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child received treatment at a religious health center/dispensary for this illness. This response category is country-specific to Malawi.

Some samples in the "FEVTR" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

FEVTRMW4 is combined with FEVTRMW3 (religious hospital/clinic) and FEVTRMW5 (religious mobile clinic) in FEVTRPRIVMIS (all faith-based facilities) for the 2000 and 2004 Malawi samples.

Additionally, FEVTRMW4 is combined with FEVTRMW3 in FEVTRPRIVMIS for the 2010 Malawi sample.

IPUMS-DHS users interested in using FEVTRMW4 are encouraged to review FEVTRPRIVMIS for a more comprehensive response category.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Source for respiratory treatment, CS Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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