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Demographic and Health Survey 1996-1997 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1996 - 1997
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BGD_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given home remedy or herbal medicine for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVHERB)

Data file: BGD1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1002
End: 1002
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
461. What was given to treat the diarrhea? Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PILL OR SYRUP A
INJECTION B
(IV) INTRAVENOUS C
HOME REMEDIES OR HERBS D
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVHERB (H15D) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child was given home remedies or herbal medicines to treat this illness.

concept

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