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Demographic and Health Survey 1994 - IPUMS Subset

Cote d'Ivoire, 1994
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CIV_1994_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère Délégué Auprès du Premier Ministre, Chargé de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan [Côte d'Ivoire] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child rice water in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDRICEWAT24H)

Data file: CIV1994-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 988
End: 988
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
431) At any time yesterday or last night, was (NAME) given any of the following:
[FOR LAST BIRTH ONLY]

Plain water?

YES 1
NO 2

Sugar water?

YES 1
NO 2

Rice water?

YES 1
NO 2

Juice?

YES 1
NO 2

Herbal tea?

YES 1
NO 2

Baby formula?

YES 1
NO 2

Fresh milk?

YES 1
NO 2

Tinned or powdered milk?

YES 1
NO 2

Other liquids?

YES 1
NO 2

Any solid or semi-solid food?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 NIU (not in universe)
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

Definition
MAFEDRICEWAT24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child rice water during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. MAFEDRICEWAT24H describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child.

Although the question wording asks about foods given to a specific child during the previous day, responses relate to the mother, so all young children of the mother are coded the same way. If the mother reported she gave her youngest surviving child rice water in the previous day, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDRICEWAT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank rice water during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDRICEWAT24H to determine whether the child drank rice water during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDRICEWAT24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child rice water during the previous 24 hours.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Foods fed child in past 24 hours Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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