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Demographic and Health Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

Rwanda, 2005
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RWA_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère des Finances et de la Planification Économique [Rwanda] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Malaria spread by: Other (B_MLSPREDOTH)

Data file: RWA2005-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1139
End: 1139
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
490E. How can they catch malaria?
RECORD ALL THAT IS MENTIONED.

WHEN IT IS COLD A
WHEN IT IS HOT B
CHANGE OF SEASON C
MOSQUITOS D
HUGGING E
EXPOSURE TO THE SUN F
WITCHCRAFT/SORCERY G
OTHER (SPECIFY)____ X
Categories
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
MLSPREDOTH indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported some other method as a way to get malaria. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Malaria transmission Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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