Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015

Reference ID

AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Child fed the same, more, or less fluid with diarrhea (C_DIAFLUIDUPDN)

Data file: AFG2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1455

End: 1456

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

522. Was he/she given any of the following to drink at any time since he/she started having the diarrhea:

a) A fluid made from a special packet called SHEFA?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

b) A pre-packaged ORS liquid?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

c) A government-recommended homemade fluid? (Wheat Salt Solution WSS)

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

d) A government-recommended homemade fluid? (Salt and Sugar Solution SSS)

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Value	Category
10	Same
20	Increase
30	Decrease
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
33	Nothing to drink
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFLUIDUPDN (H38) reports whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of fluid as usual during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFLUIDUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Diarrhea, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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