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

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Sep 19, 2018

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Source of medical treatment for diarrhea (C_DIATRESRC)

Data file: UGA1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 697

End: 698

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

431) Did you take (NAME) to a private doctor or to a hospital or clinic, traditional doctor or any other place to treat the fever. IF YES: Where taken?

DOCTOR 1
HOSPITAL/CLINIC 2
TRADITIONAL DOCTOR 3
OTHER (SPECIFY) _________ 4
CHILD NOT TAKEN 5

Categories

Value	Category
00	No treatment
10	Private doctor
20	Hospital/clinic
21	Public hospital
22	Health center
30	Traditional healer
40	Other facility
41	Dispensary
42	Pharmacy or health station
50	Community health worker
60	Other, unspecified
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 children under age 5 with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIATRESRC (H12) reports the source of advice or treatment for this illness.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Place for diarrhea treatment, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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