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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Child's fever/cough treated by: ACT (antimalarial) (C_FEVGIVACT)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1773
End: 1774
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
547. What drugs did (NAME) take? Any other drugs?
CIRCLE ALL MENTIONED.

ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS

SP/FANSIDAR/AMALAR/MALOXINE A
CHLOROQUINE B
AMODIAQUINE C
QUININE D
ARTEMISININ COMBINATION THERAPY (ACT) E
OTHER ANTIMALARIAL (SPECIFY) ____________ F

ANTIBIOTIC DRUGS

PILL/SYRUP G
INJECTION H

OTHER DRUGS

ASPIRIN I
ACETAMINOPHEN J
IBUPROFEN K

OTHER (SPECIFY) ____________ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
16 Given ACT for fever or difficult/rapid breathing
00 No
10 Yes, child given ACT
11 Given ACT for fever
12 Given ACT for cough
13 Given ACT for fever or cough
14 Given ACT for fever and cough
15 Given ACT for fever or convulsions
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 young children with a fever or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVGIVACT (ML13E) indicates whether the child was given artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is used to treat malaria.

A few samples ask separately about drugs taken for fever and drugs taken for cough. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in composite coding. A first digit of 1 indicates the child received the drug, and the second digit indicates the child's illness:


11: The child was given the drug for a fever
12: The child was given the drug for a cough
13: The child was given the drug for a fever or a cough
14: The child was given the drug for both a fever and a cough
15: The child was given the drug for a fever or convulsions
16: The child was given the drug for a fever or difficult/rapid breathing


See Comparability for more information.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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