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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Mozambique, 1997
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MOZ_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estatística [Mozambique] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Signs cough needs treatment: Child too thin (B_COUTRTHIN)

Data file: MOZ1997-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 795
End: 795
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
DIFFICULTY BREATHING B
NOISY BREATHING C
FEVER D
UNABLE TO DRINK/TO NURSE E
NOT EATING/NOT DRINKING WELL F
GETTING SICKER/VERY SICK G
NOT GETTING BETTER H
CONVULSIONS I
NOISY BREATHING J
VERY THIN CHILD K
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ X
DOESN'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, fever
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
COUTRTHIN indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that extreme thinness 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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