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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
Metadata
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Blood in the stools (H11b)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 2415
Invalid: 102393
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 328
End: 328
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Was there any blood in the stools?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 1866
77.3%
1 Yes 536
22.2%
8 Don't know 13
0.5%
9 Missing 230
Sysmiss 102163
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

Universe
Living children having an episode of diarrhea in the last two weeks (B5(HIDX)=1 and H11=1:2)
Source of information
Respondent
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