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Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1997
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SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et du Plan [Senegal] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Known source of ORS: Traditional healer/practitioner (other) (C_ORSPRIVHL)

Data file: SEN1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 703
End: 703
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
483B. What place do you know of?

NAME OF PLACE _____

PUBLIC SECTOR

HOSPITAL 11
HEALTH CENTER/PMI (Protection Maternelle et Infantile) 12
HEALTH POST/FREE CLINIC 13

PRIVATE MEDICAL SECTOR

PRIVATE CLINIC/HOSPITAL 21
PHARMACY 22
PRIVATE DOCTOR 23
PRIVATE NURSE/CONFES 24

OTHER SECTOR

ASBEF (Senegalese Association for Family Well-Being) 31
TRADITIONAL HEALER 32
CHURCH 33
FRIEND/RELATIVE 34

AUXILIARY 41
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____51
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
ORSPRIVHL (V424T) indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the woman reported a traditional healer as a source for an oral rehydration solution (ORS).

ORS is a typically used to treat dehydration in individuals with diarrhea.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
ORS treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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