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

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Sign child needs treatment: Other (C_TROTHSYMP)

Data file: AFG2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1135

End: 1135

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

556A. Sometimes children have severe illness and should be taken immediately to a health facility. What types of symptoms would cause you to take your child to a health facility right away? Any other symptoms?

CHILD NOT ABLE TO DRINK OR BREASTFEED A
CHILD BECOMES SICKER B
CHILD DEVELOPS A FEVER C
CHILD HAS FAST BREATHING D
CHILD HAS DIFFICULT BREATHING E
CHILD HAS BLOOD IN STOOL F
CHILD IS DRINKING POORLY G
OTHER_____________X

Value	Category
9	NIU (not in universe)
0	No
1	Yes
8	Missing

Description

Definition

TROTHSYMP indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that a child with some other symptom should immediately be taken to a health facility. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific response categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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