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Demographic and Health Survey 1998-99 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1998 - 1999
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IND_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given pills or syrups (unspecified) for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVPILSYR)

Data file: IND1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1057
End: 1057
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
479. What was given to treat the diarrhoea?
Anything else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PILL OR SYRUP A
INJECTION B
INTRAVENOUS (I.V./DRIP/BOTTLE) C
HOMEMADE SUGAR-SALT-WATER SOLUTION D
HOME REMEDY/HERBAL MEDICINE E
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVPILSYR (H15) indicates whether the child was given some unspecified other pills or syrup to treat this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the specific medications included in a given survey,

For Phase 5 forward, the similar variable DIAGIVPILUNK reports whether the child was given an "unknown" type of pill or syrup to treat diarrhea.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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