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Demographic Health Survey 2010

Rwanda, 2010 - 2011
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RWA-NISR-DHS-2010-v01
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National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda NISR
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Heard of oral rehydration (V416)

Data file: Woman

Overview

Valid: 13633
Invalid: 157
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 305
End: 305
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 2
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
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?
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 Never heard of 2133
15.6%
1 Used ORS 307
2.3%
2 Heard of ORS 11193
82.1%
9 38
Sysmiss 119
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
All eligible women
Source of information
Respondent

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions
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.
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