2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition
Zambia
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Reference ID
ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0
Producer(s)
Zambia Statistics Agency
Metadata
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Aug 18, 2025
Last modified
Feb 26, 2026
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place first sought treatment for diarrhea (h44a)
Data file: ZMBR71FL
Overview
Valid:
1032
Invalid:
37414
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
8
Range:
10 - 96
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | public sector | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | government hospital | 64 |
6.2%
|
| 12 | government health center | 671 |
65%
|
| 13 | government health post | 186 |
18%
|
| 14 | mobile hospital/ clinic | 7 |
0.7%
|
| 15 | community based agent/ fieldworker | 28 |
2.7%
|
| 16 | other public sector | 3 |
0.3%
|
| 20 | private sector | 0 |
0%
|
| 21 | private hospital, clinic | 7 |
0.7%
|
| 22 | mission hospital/ clinic | 31 |
3%
|
| 23 | pharmacy | 10 |
1%
|
| 24 | private doctor | 2 |
0.2%
|
| 25 | mobile clinic | 0 |
0%
|
| 26 | community based agent/ fieldworker | 9 |
0.9%
|
| 27 | other private medical sector | 0 |
0%
|
| 30 | other | 0 |
0%
|
| 31 | shop | 0 |
0%
|
| 32 | traditional practitioner | 6 |
0.6%
|
| 33 | market | 5 |
0.5%
|
| 34 | itinerant drug seller | 1 |
0.1%
|
| 96 | other | 2 |
0.2%
|
| Sysmiss | 37414 |
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.