Ghana - Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2006, MICS Round 1

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Reference ID DDI-GHA-GSS-MICS-2006-v1.0
Year 2006
Country Ghana
Producer(s) Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President
Sponsor(s) United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Financial and technical assistance
(US) President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - PEPFAR - Financial and technical assistance
Dutch Government - - Financial and technical assistance
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Symptoms that would make a mother take her/son daughter to a health facility: Child not able to drink or breastfeed (CA14A)
File: Children under 5 years
Overview
Type: Discrete
Format: character
Width: 1
Valid cases: 592
Invalid: 0
Questions and instructions
Pre question
ASK THE FOLLOWING QUESTION (CA14) ONLY ONCE
FOR EACH MOTHER/CARETAKER.
Literal question
CA14. Sometimes children have severe
illnesses and should be taken immediately
to a health facility.
What types of symptoms would cause you
to take your child to a health facility right
away?
Post question
KEEP ASKING FOR MORE SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS UNTIL
THE MOTHER/CARETAKER CANNOT RECALL ANY
ADDITIONAL SYMPTOMS .
CIRCLE ALL SYMPTOMS MENTIONED,
BUT DO NOT PROMPT WITH ANY SUGGESTIONS.
Categories
ValueCategoryCases
? Missing 0 0.0%
A Child not able to drink or breatfeed 529 89.4%
C 63 10.6%
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.

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