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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
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Department of Health [South Africa] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Source of diarrhea treatment: Private pharmacy (C_DIATRPRIVDRUG)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1088
End: 1088
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
463 Where did you seek advice or treatment? Anywhere else?
RECORD ALL MENTIONED.

PUBLIC SECTOR

GOVT. HOSPITAL A
DAY HOSP/CLINIC/COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER B
MOBILE CLINIC D
COMM. HEALTH WORKER E
OTHER PUBLIC (SPECIFY) __________________ F

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC G
PHARMACY H
PRIVATE DOCTOR I
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL (SPECIFY) __________________ J

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PVT. HOSPITAL/CLINIC G
PHARMACY H
PRIVATE DOCTOR I
OTHER PRIVATE MEDICAL (SPECIFY) ___________________ J

OTHER SOURCE

SHOP K
TRAD. HEALER L

OTHER (SPECIFY) _______________ X
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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 children with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIATRPRIVDRUG (H12K) indicates, in response to an open-ended question, whether the child received treatment at a private pharmacy, drug store, or dispensary.

Some samples in the "DIATR" series include categories that can be consolidated into a single response. IPUMS-DHS uses supplemental programming to combine these responses in a standard variable while preserving the separate responses in country-specific variables.

For example, a given sample might include multiple categories for different types of private drug sources that could be combined to create a more comprehensive response category. See Comparability for more information on the specific categories combined in DIATPRIVDRUG.

Users should be careful to distinguish this variable from DIATRPUBDRUG and DIATROTHDRUG, which refer to public drug sources and informal drug sources, respectively.

concept

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