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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Child given other treatment for diarrhea (C_DIAGIVOTHER)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1075
End: 1075
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
460 Was anything (else) given to treat the diarrhea?

YES 1
NO 2 (SKIP TO 462)
DON'T KNOW 8 (SKIP TO 462)
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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