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Demographic and Health Survey 2012 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 2012
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GIN_2012_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan [Guinea] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: GIN2012-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1514
End: 1514
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
524) What (else) was given to treat the diarrhea?
Anything else?
RECORD ALL TREATMENTS GIVEN.

PILL OR SYRUP

A ANTIBIOTIC
B ANTIMOTILITY
C ZINC
D OTHER (NOT ANTIBIOTIC, ANTIMOTILITY OR ZINC)
E UNKNOWN PILL OR SYRUP

INJECTION

F ANTIBIOTIC
G NON-ANTIBIOTIC
H UNKNOWN INJECTION

I (IV) INTRAVENOUS

J HOME REMEDY/HERBAL MEDICINE

X OTHER (SPECIFY)
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 young children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAGIVOTHER (H20) indicates whether they were given some "other" treatment for this illness. The meaning of "other" depends on the types of diarrhea treatment specified in a given sample.

concept

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