Nigeria - Demographic and Health Survey, 2008, Fifth Round
Reference ID | NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0 |
Year | 2008 |
Country | Nigeria |
Producer(s) | National Population Commission (NPC) - Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) |
Sponsor(s) | President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - funding United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - funding MEASURE DHS Project - MEASURE - funding |
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Created on | Oct 18, 2010 |
Last modified | Dec 02, 2013 |
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Heard of oral rehydration
(V416)
File: Woman
File: Woman
Overview
Type:
Discrete Format: numeric Width: 1 Decimals: 0 Range: 0-2 Invalid: 9 | Valid cases: 32665 Invalid: 1931 |
All eligible women
Respondent
Categories
Value | Category | Cases | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | Never heard of | 13070 | 40.0% |
1 | Used ors | 585 | 1.8% |
2 | Heard of ors | 19010 | 58.2% |
9 | Missing | 720 | |
Sysmiss | 1211 |
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.
Questions and instructions
Was he/she given any of the following to drink at any time since he/she started having the diarrhea: A fluid made from a special packet called [LOCAL NAME FOR ORS PACKET]? A pre-packaged ORS liquid? OR Have you ever heard of a special product called [LOCAL NAME FOR ORS PACKET] or a pre-packaged ORS liquid you can get for the treatment of diarrhea?
Imputation and Derivation
Set to 1 if the respondent has used ORS packets; set to 2 if the respondent has only heard of ORS packets; set to missing if the respondent did not answer this last question; otherwise, set to 0.