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Demographic and Health Survey 2005-06 - IPUMS Subset

India, 2005 - 2006
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IND_2005_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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International Institute for Population Sciences and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center
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Had antibiotics at home for child's fever/cough (C_FEVANTIBHOME)

Data file: IND2005-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1633
End: 1633
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
549. Did you already have (NAME OF DRUG FROM 547) at home when the child became ill? IF YES, CIRCLE CODE FOR THAT DRUG. ASK SEPARATELY FOR EACH

ANTIMALARIAL DRUGS

CHLOROQUINE A
PRIMAQUINE B
SP/FANSIDAR C
COMBINATION WITH ARTEMISININ D
OTHER ANTIMALARIAL E
UNKNOWN ANTIMALARIAL F

ANTIBIOTIC DRUG G

NONE OF THEM AT HOME Y
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes, at home
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 young children who took antibiotics for a fever in the past 2 weeks, FEVANTIBHOME (ML24C) indicates whether their home already had the antibiotics on hand when the child became ill.

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