Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey, Wave 2, 2005
Kenya, 2005
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Reference ID
KEN_2005_GEHDS-W2_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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Markus Goldstein and Harsha Thirumurthy
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- Data files
- ag_a
- ag_b
- ag_c
- ag_d
- anthrop_a
- anthrop_b
- anthrop_c
- assets
- assets_I8
- assets_I17
- assets_II5
- assets_II11
- assets_IV7
- assets_IV13
- assets_V
- assets_VI5
- assets_VI12
- behavior
- behavior_c4
- education
- educexp
- famback
- famback_II
- famback_III
- famback_IV
- famback_V
- food
- health
- health_c
- health_c_I
- health_c_II
- health_c_III
- health_c_IV
- hhr_correction
- hhroster_1
- hhroster_2
- housing
- housing_2
- identification
- income
- iroster
- marriage
- marriage_b
- marriage_c
- mortality
- mortality_b
- networks
- networks_a
- networks_b
- networks_c
- networks_c9
- networks_c10
- networks_d
- networks_e
- othexp
- shocks
- shocks_a3
- shocks_a7
- shocks_a11
- shocks_a15
- shocks_a19
- shocks_a24
- shocks_b30
- shocks_b33
- shocks_b40
- shocks_c45
- shocks_c49
- shocks_c53
- timerisk
- transfers
- transfers_a2
- transfers_a10
- transfers_b2
- transfers_d2
- transfers_d7
- transfers_d14
- transfers_d19
- youth
Illness B: (h08b)
Data file: health
Overview
Valid:
677
Invalid:
5780
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
32
Mean:
14.713
Standard deviation:
9.698
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 32
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
If illness: can you describe the symptoms that [NAME] suffered from during this illness? What is/was wrong?
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diarrhea (acute) | 14 |
2.1%
|
| 2 | Diarrhea (chronic, 1 month or more) | 5 |
0.7%
|
| 3 | Weight loss (major) | 2 |
0.3%
|
| 4 | Fever (acute) | 51 |
7.5%
|
| 5 | Fever (recurring) | 25 |
3.7%
|
| 6 | Skin rash | 9 |
1.3%
|
| 7 | Weakness | 80 |
11.8%
|
| 8 | Severe headache | 93 |
13.7%
|
| 9 | Fainting | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 10 | Chills (feeling hot and cold) | 12 |
1.8%
|
| 11 | Vomiting | 34 |
5%
|
| 12 | Cough | 109 |
16.1%
|
| 13 | Productive cough | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 14 | Coughing blood | 0 |
0%
|
| 15 | Pain on passing urine | 0 |
0%
|
| 16 | Genital sores | 0 |
0%
|
| 17 | Mental disorder | 0 |
0%
|
| 18 | Abdominal pain | 36 |
5.3%
|
| 19 | Sore throat | 10 |
1.5%
|
| 20 | Difficulty breathing | 11 |
1.6%
|
| 21 | Burn | 0 |
0%
|
| 22 | Fracture | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 23 | Wound | 4 |
0.6%
|
| 24 | Child birth | 0 |
0%
|
| 25 | Ameobeosis | 0 |
0%
|
| 26 | Other (specify) | 61 |
9%
|
| 30 | 17 |
2.5%
|
|
| 31 | 80 |
11.8%
|
|
| 32 | 21 |
3.1%
|
|
| Sysmiss | 5780 |
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 post text
Record up to 5 symptom codes.
Description
Universe
All household members.
Source of information
Primary female respondent