The Zambia Access to ACT Initiative Survey 2009
Zambia, 2009
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Illness diagnosis method (b1_18)
Data file: s10health
Overview
Valid:
891
Invalid:
8141
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
73
End:
74
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Literal question
How was your illness diagnosed?
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | |
| 1 | Symptomatic Diagnosis (by provider) |
| 2 | Clinical Diagnosis (by provider with physical laboratory investigation) |
| 3 | Microscopy/Blood Slide |
| 4 | Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) |
| 5 | X-ray |
| 45 | |
| 96 | Other |
| 99 | |
| Sysmiss |
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.
Interviewer instructions
Determine how the illness was detected or identified in the sick person. Was it by symptomatic diagnosis (identify illness using symptoms or description of the pain given by the sick person), clinical diagnosis (by physical examination)-examining the sick person by touching or checking the affected part(s) of the body, microscopy/blood slide (diagnosis by examining blood sample using a microscope).
Question post text
If answer is 1, 2 or 5 > Go to 10.20 (b1_20 - variable name in dataset).
Description
Universe
ALL household members >=12 years old.