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Demographic and Health Survey 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1990
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NGA_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Federal Office of Statistics [Nigeria] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro International Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Source of information on preparing ORS for diarrhea treatment (B_ORSINFOSRC)

Data file: NGA1990-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 647
End: 649
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
489. Who taught you to prepare the home fluid made from sugar, salt and water?

VILLAGE HEALTH WORKER 01
HEALTH CLINIC/POST 02
HEALTH CENTER 03
HOSPITAL 04
PRIVATE DOCTOR 05
TRADITIONAL/SPIRITUAL HEALER 06
VILLAGE CHEMIST AT PATENT MEDICINE SHOP 07
PHARMACY 08
IMMUNIZATION CARD 09
OTHER (SPECIFY) _______ 10
DON'T KNOW 98
Categories
Value Category
100 PUBLIC SECTOR
110 Government hospital
120 Government health center
121 Rural health center
130 Government mobile clinic
140 Government health post
150 Government health worker
151 Community health worker
152 Village health guide/worker
153 Government paramedic
154 First aid worker
155 Family welfare worker
156 Lady health visitor
160 Maternal child health (MCH) center
170 Government pharmacy/dispensary
200 PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR
210 Private hospital/clinic
220 Private doctor
230 Private pharmacy
240 Private mobile clinic
250 Private community health worker
300 RELIGIOUS/MISSION
310 Religious hospital/clinic
320 Religious health post
330 Religious pharmacy/dispensary
400 OTHER
410 Shop
420 Traditional practitioner
430 Friend/relative
440 Media
441 Radio
442 Printed material
443 TV
450 Immunization card
995 Other
997 Don't know
998 Missing
999 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 women who prepared ORS for their child's diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, ORSINFOSRC (V425) reports where she learned about preparing a homemade ORS fluid for diarrhea treatment. Response categories vary across samples. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
ORS treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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