Demographic and Health Survey 1988-1989 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1988 - 1989

Reference ID

UGA_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health with the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Department of Geography (Makerere University), Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (Makerere University) [Uganda] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Child had cough/difficult breathing recently (C_COURECENT)

Data file: UGA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 657

End: 658

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

433) Has (NAME) suffered from severe cough or difficult or rapid breathing in the last four weeks?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)
DON'T KNOW 8 (GO TO NEXT COLUMN)

Categories

Value	Category
10	No
20	Yes
21	Yes, past four weeks/month
22	Yes, last 24 hours
23	Yes, last 2 to 14 days
24	Yes, last two weeks
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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 surviving children under age 5, COURECENT (H31) indicates whether the child experienced a cough in the past 2 weeks. Question wording differences may limit the comparability of COURECENT; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child respiratory illness or fever Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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