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Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2000
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MWI_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sought STI advice from: Shop/pharmacy (closed-ended) (B_STIADSHOPYN)

Data file: MWI2000-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 894
End: 894
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
820G. The last time you had (INFECTION FROM 820B/820C/820D) did you do any of the following? Did you....

Go to a clinic, hospital, or private doctor?

YES 1
NO 2

Consult a traditional healer?

YES 1
NO 2

Seek advice or buy medicines in a shop or pharmacy?

YES 1
NO 2

Ask for advice from friends or relatives?

YES 1
NO 2
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Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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 women who had symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection in the past 12 months, STIADSHOPYN indicates whether they sought advice or treatment from a shop or pharmacy for this problem.

IPUMS-DHS users are encouraged to review the Comparability tab and should be careful to distinguish this variable from STIADSHOP, STIADPUBDRUG, and STIADPRIVDRUG.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Source for STI advice, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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