Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey (NCSS), 2012, 2nd Survey

KENYA, 2012
Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa (PDAU)

African Population & Health Research Center

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duration of diarrhea (days) before sought advice/treatment for child's diarrhea (wom_q525)

Data file: NCSS 2012 WOMEN IMMUNIZATION ANALYTICAL FILE

Overview

vald 2180

invd 0

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 0 - 9999995

Questions and instructions

Literal question

How many days after the diarrhoea began did you first seek advice or treatment for (NAME)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	same day	117	5.4%
1		41	1.9%
2		52	2.4%
3		28	1.3%
4		6	0.3%
5		1	0%
7		6	0.3%
8		1	0%
14		3	0.1%
30		1	0%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	not applicable	1924	88.3%
9999995	missing:impute	0	0%

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

Question post text

IF THE SAME DAY, RECORD '00'

Interviewer instructions

Women are asked how long (that is, how many days) they waited before seeking advice/treatment for the child's diarrhea. Record the response in completed days. Record '00' if advice was sought immediately, i.e., on the same day the child became ill.

Description

Text

Duration of diarrhea (in days) before sought advice/treatment for child's diarrhea

Universe

All children (of women aged 12-49 years) born in the five years preceding the survey who have had diarrhoea in the last 2 weeks preceding the survey according to wom_q517 and for whom woman sought advice/treatment for the diarrhoea according to wom_q521