Demographic and Health Survey 2006-2007 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 2006 - 2007

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Reference ID

NAM_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) [Namibia] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Child's fever/cough treated by: Artemether-lumefantrine (antimalarial) (C_FEVGIVAL)

Data file: NAM2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1533

End: 1534

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

547. What drugs did (NAME) take?
Any other drugs?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS

SP/FANSIDAR A
QUININE B
ARTEMETHERLUMEFANTRINE C
OTHER ANTI-MALARIAL (SPECIFY) ___ D
PILL/SYRUP E
INJECTION 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
00	No
10	Yes, child given artemether-lumefantrine
11	Given artemether-lumefantrine for fever
12	Given artemether-lumefantrine for cough
13	Given artemether-lumefantrine for fever or cough
14	Given artemether-lumefantrine for fever and cough
15	Given artemether-lumefantrine for fever or convulsions
16	Given artemether-lumefantrine for fever or difficult/rapid breathing
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 to 4 weeks, FEVGIVAL indicates whether the child was given the antimalarial drug artemether-lumefantrine (AL or LA), also known as Coartem.

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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