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

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

African Population & Health Research Center

CSV JSON

duration of fever/cough (days) before sought advice/treatment for child's fever/ (wom_q540)

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 illness began did you first seek advice or treatment for (NAME)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0	same day	4	0.2%
1		2	0.1%
2		3	0.1%
3		3	0.1%
98	don't know	0	0%
99	not applicable	2168	99.4%
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 fever/cough, since prompt treatment is critical. 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 fever/cough (days) before sought advice/treatment for child's fever/cough

Universe

All children (of women aged 12-49 years) born in the five years preceding the survey who have had a fever in the last 2 weeks preceding the survey according to wom_q529, who have had a cough in the last 2 weeks preceding the survey according to wom_q530, who have sought advice/treatment for illness according to wom_q536 and who have sought advice/treatment for illness from multiple sources according to wom_q537