The Plight of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Nairobi Urban Slums in the Face of HIV/AIDS

KENYA, 2007
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population & Health Research Center

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Illness suffered by child (v0303)

Data file: Caregivclean

Overview

vald 1703

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 98

Questions and instructions

Literal question

3.3 What illness does/did (NAME) have? / In the last one year, What illness did (NAME) have last?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Cough	175	10.3%
2	Cold	175	10.3%
3	Diarrhoea	15	0.9%
4	Stomach pain	75	4.4%
5	Fever/ chills	43	2.5%
6	Headache	107	6.3%
7	Malaria	345	20.3%
8	Injury	34	2%
9	No illness	222	13%
95	Missing	130	7.6%
96	Other illness	348	20.4%
98	Don't know	34	2%

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.

Question pretext

FW: FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL OR HAVE BEEN ILL IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS ASK; What illness does/did (NAME) have?

IF (NAME) IS NOT ILL/WAS NOT ILL IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS OR IT IS NOT KNOWN IF S/HE WAS ILL, ASK; In the last one year, What illness did (NAME) have last?

FW: NOTE THAT HERE WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE ONE MOST RECENT ILLNESS. IF RESPONDENT SAYS THAT NAME HAS/HAD TWO CONCURRENT ILLNESSES, ASK FOR THE ONE THAT WAS MOST SERIOUS

Question post text

if answer is l go to question 4.0

Description

Text

Illness suffered by child

Universe

All children 6-14 years from the NUHDSS database