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: Don't know (C_FEVGIVDK)

Data file: NAM2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1553

End: 1554

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

546. At any time during the illness, did (NAME) take any drugs for the illness?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO BACK TO 503 IN NEXT COLUMN; OR, IF NO MORE BIRTHS, GO TO 573. IF SECOND-FROM-LAST BIRTH GO TO 503 IN NEXT-TO-LAST COLUMN OF NEW QUESTIONNAIRE; OR, IF NO MORE BIRTHS, GO TO 573.)
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
16	Don't know if/what given for fever or difficult/rapid breathing
00	No
10	Yes, don't know if/what child given
11	Don't know if/what given for fever
12	Don't know if/what given for cough
13	Don't know if/what given for fever or cough
14	Don't know if/what given for fever and cough
15	Don't know if/what given for fever or convulsions
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, FEVGIVDK (ML13Z) indicates whether the child's mother did not know whether or what medicine was given to the child.

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's mother did not know whether or what medicine the child received, and the second digit indicates the child's illness:

11: The child received unknown treatment for a fever
12: The child received unknown treatment for a cough
13: The child received unknown treatment for a fever or a cough
14: The child received unknown treatment for both a fever and a cough
15: The child received unknown treatment for a fever or convulsions
16: The child received unknown treatment 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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