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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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Amount children should be given to eat with diarrhea (W_DIASHOULDEAT)

Data file: SEN1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1920
End: 1920
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
488B. In general, when a child has diarrhea, should you give him/her less food, the same amount of food, or more food?

LESS FOOD 1
SAME AMOUNT OF FOOD 2
MORE FOOD 3
DOESN'T KNOW 4
Categories
Value Category
1 Less to eat
2 Same amount to eat
3 More to eat
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
DIASHOULDEAT (V449) reports the respondent's beliefs about the amount of food a child with diarrhea should be given (more, less, or same amount as usual).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Beliefs about child treatment Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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