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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
Producer(s)
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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Diarrhea treatment from traditional practitioner: Baobab fruit (W_DIATRADBAOBAB)

Data file: SEN1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1930
End: 1930
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
488E. What did the healer give you to treat diarrhea?
CIRCLE THE CORRESPONDING CODES TO THE RESPONDENT'S RESPONSES.

POWDER A
INFUSION B
MONKEY BREAD C
RICE BROTH D
GUAVA LEAVES E
AMULET F
OTHER (SPECIFY) _____G
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
DIATRADBAOBAB indicates whether, in response to an open-ended question, the respondent reported receiving baobab fruit from a traditional practitioner to treat her child's recent diarrhea.

concept

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