Home / Central Data Catalog / TZA_2015_DHS_V01_M_V01_A_IPUMS / variable [M]
central

Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016
Get Microdata
Reference ID
TZA_2015_DHS_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
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Jan 16, 2021
Last modified
Jan 16, 2021
Page views
135238

Cost of other health-related items for HH in last 4 weeks (M_HHOTHHLTHCOSTHH)

Data file: TZA2015-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 509
End: 514
Width: 6
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
311. Sometimes people buy vitamins, medicines, and herbal remedies without consulting with a health provider, pharmacy, or traditional healer. They may also buy other health-related items such as Band-Aids/plasters, thermometers, or other medical devices, and so on without a consultation. In the last four weeks, how much money was spent on these types of health-related items for members of your household?

COST (TSH) ______
NONE 000000
IN KIND ONLY 999995
DON'T KNOW 999998
Categories
Value Category
000000 No cost/free
999994 Item not applicable
999995 Paid in kind only
999996 Non-resident
999997 Don't know
999998 Missing
999999 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
HHOTHHLTHCOST reports how much the household spent on health-related items without a consultation in the last four weeks. This includes buying vitamins, medicines and herbal remedies without consulting a health provider, pharmacy, or traditional healer. This also other-health related items, such as bandages/plasters, thermometers, or other medical devices.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Healthcare Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
Back to Catalog