Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey 2010-2011

Rwanda, 2010 - 2011

Reference ID

RWA_2010_EICV-III_v01_M

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR)

Metadata

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Apr 25, 2019

Last modified

Apr 25, 2019

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Self medicine/treatment method - modern medicine (b5r4b2)

Data file: susenas12mar_ki

Overview

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Type of medicine/treatment method used: 2. modern medicine

Categories

Value	Category
1	Yes
2	No

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.

Interviewer instructions

Enter code 1 if the answer is “Yes” or code 2 for “No” in the box provided.

Description

Definition

Modern medicine is medicine used in a medical system, it can be in the form of tablet, caplet, capsule, syrup, powder, ointment, suppository (i.e. hemorrhoids medicine), inhaler (i.e. asthmatic medicine to be sprayed inside the mouth or to be inhaled); usually is ready made from pharmaceutical factories, with packaging and registration code number in the Ministry of Health starting with 1-3 letters followed by numbers.