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Demographic and Health Survey 2008-09 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 2008 - 2009
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KEN_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Kenya National Bureau of Statistics and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Other treatment for child's fever/convulsions: Traditional healer (C_FEVOTRTRAD)

Data file: KEN2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1680
End: 1680
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
571B. What was done about (NAME)'s fever?

CONSULTED TRAD'L HEALER A
GAVE WARM SPONGING B
GAVE HERBS C
OTHER X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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 convulsions in the past 2 weeks, FEVOTRTRAD (ML19A) indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the respondent reported the child was taken to a traditional healer for treatment.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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