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Demographic and Health Survey, 2008
Fifth Round

Nigeria, 2008
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Reference ID
NGA-NPC-DHS-2008-v1.0
Producer(s)
National Population Commission (NPC)
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Taking iron pills, sprinkles or syrup (H42)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 25242
Invalid: 79566
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 456
End: 456
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
In the last seven days, did (NAME) take iron pills, sprinkles with iron, or iron syrup (like this/any of these)? SHOW COMMON TYPES OF PILLS/SPRINKLES/SYRUPS).
Categories
Value Category Cases
0 No 21705
86%
1 Yes 3247
12.9%
8 Don't know 290
1.1%
9 Missing 204
Sysmiss 79362
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
Living children (B5(HIDX)=1)
Source of information
Respondent
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