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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1996
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TZA_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Bureau of Statistics, Planning Commission [Tanzania] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child taken to medical facility for fever/cough treatment (C_FEVTREMEDFAC)

Data file: TZA1996-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1207
End: 1207
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
453. Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

GOVERNMENT AND PARASTATAL

HOSPITAL A
HEALTH CENTRE B
DISPENSARY C
PARASTATAL HOSP/CLINIC D
VILLAGE HEALTH POST/WORKER E
OTHER PUBLIC (SPECIFY) ___________________ F

MEDICAL PRIVATE SECTOR

RELIGIOUS ORG. HOSP/CLIN G
PRIVATE DOCTOR/HOSP/CLIN H
PHARMACY/MEDICAL STORE I
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL (SPECIFY) _______________ J

OTHER PRIVATE SECTOR

TRADITIONAL PRACTITIONER K
NEIGHBORS/RELATIVES L

OTHER (SPECIFY) ___________ X
Categories
Value Category
0 Did not receive any treatment
1 Received treatment
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 with a fever and/or cough in the past 2 weeks, FEVTREMEDFAC (H32Z) indicates whether they were taken to a medical facility for treatment for this illness.

According to the standard DHS recode manuals, a treatment source was considered a medical facility if it fell under the Public Sector or Medical Private Sector headers, except for Pharmacy.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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