Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1988

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Reference ID

GHA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Source of medical treatment for child's last episode of cough (C_COUTRWHO)

Data file: GHA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 739

End: 739

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

435. Did you take (NAME) to a private doctor or to a hospital or clinic to treat the problem? IF YES: Where did you take him/her?

DOCTOR 1
HOSPITAL/CLINIC 2
NO 3

Categories

Value	Category
0	No treatment
1	Private doctor
2	Hospital/clinic
3	Traditional healer
4	Health center
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)
5	Dispensary
6	Other

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 cough in the past 4 weeks, COUTRWHO (H32) indicates where the child was taken for medical treatment for the last cough episode.

concept

Concept

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

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