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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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Reference ID
LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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Child given recommended home solution with salt and sugar for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVSOLUT)

Data file: LSO2009-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1593
End: 1594
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
528 Was he/she given any of the following to drink at any time since he/she started having the diarrhoea:

a) A fluid made from a special packet called Motsoako or ORS?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

b) A health clinic-recommended homemade sugar-salt solution?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Yes
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
00 No
11 Yes, spontaneous
12 Yes, probed
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVSOLUT (H14) indicates whether the child was given a recommended homemade solution to treat this illness.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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