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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 1996
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BEN_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère du Plan, de la Restructuration Économique et de la Promotion de l'Emploi, Institut National de la Statistique et de l'Analyse Économique, Bureau Central de Recensement [Bénin], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Signs cough needs treatment: Difficult breathing (C_COUTRDIFBREATH)

Data file: BEN1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 872
End: 872
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
468) When a child is sick with a cough, what signs of illness would tell you that he or she should be taken to a health facility or health worker?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED

RAPID BREATHING A
DIFFICULT BREATHING B
NOISY BREATHING C
FEVER D
UNABLE TO DRINK E
NOT EATING/NOT DRINKING WELL F
GETS SICKER/VERY SICK G
NOT GETTING BETTER H
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____________ X
DON'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, difficult breathing
8 Missing
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
COUTRDIFBREATH indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that difficulty breathing indicated a child sick with a cough should be taken to a health facility or health worker for treatment.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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