Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-16

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF, Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Number of days after fever started ACT first taken (C_FEVACT1ST)

Data file: TZA2015-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

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Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	Same day as fever/cough
10	Next day
20	2 days after
30	3(+) days after
31	4+ days after
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 who took quinine for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVACT1ST (ML20A) reports how many days after the fever began that the child first started taking artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), which is generally used to treat malaria.

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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