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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1997
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MDG_1997_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Démographie et des Statistiques Sociales, Institut National de la Statistique [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Signs cough needs treatment: Difficult breathing (W_COUTRDIFBREATH)

Data file: MDG1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2081
End: 2081
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
468. When a child suffers from a cough, what are the signs/symptoms that let you know he/she should be brought to a health center or a health care professional?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

RAPID BREATHING A
DIFFICULTY BREATHING B
NOISY BREATHING C
FEVER D
UNABLE TO DRINK E
DOESN'T EAT/DRINK WELL H
BECOMES MORE SICK/VERY SICK I
DOESN'T GET BETTER J
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ X
DOESN'T KNOW Z
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, difficult breathing
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
COUTRDIFBREATH indicates whether the woman respondent said, in response to an open-ended question, that difficulty breathing indicated a child sick with a cough should be taken to a health facility or health worker for treatment.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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