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Demographic and Health Survey 2004-05 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2004 - 2005
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TZA_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Other (unspecified) treatment for child's fever/convulsions (C_FEVOTROTH)

Data file: TZA2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1582
End: 1582
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
474S. What was done about (NAME)'s (fever/convulsions)?

CONSULTED TRAD'L HEALER A
GAVE TEPID SPONGING B
GAVE HERBS C
OTHER (SPECIFY) _________ 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, FEVOTROTH (ML19X) indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the respondent reported the child was given some other (unspecified) treatment. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

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