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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1999
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NGA_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child's illness before death: Convulsions (C_ILLPREDCONV)

Data file: NGA1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1255
End: 1255
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
498A. During the illness that led to death, did (NAME) have convulsions?

YES 1
NO 2
DOES NOT KNOW 8
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 young children who have died, ILLPREDCONV indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the child's mother reported the child suffered from convulsions (rolling of the eyes and loss of consciousness) before death.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Cause of death Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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