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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given nothing as treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVNONE)

Data file: NPL2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1915
End: 1915
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
617. CHECK 615:
ANY YES: What else was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
ALL NO OR DK: What was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN

PILL OR SYRUP

ANTIBIOTIC A
ANTIMOTILITY B
OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC OR ANTIMOTILITY) C
UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP D

INJECTION

ANTIBIOTIC E
NON-ANTIBIOTIC F
UNKNOWN INJECTION G

(IV) INTRAVENOUS H
HERBAL MEDICINE I
OTHER (SPECIFY) ___ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No, given some treatment
1 Yes, nothing given as treatment
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVNONE (H21A) indicates whether the child was given no treatment for this illness.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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