Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 1988

Reference ID

EGY_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Council [Egypt] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: EGY1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 782

End: 783

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

814. During the most recent episode of diarrhea (NAME) had, did you stop, decrease, continue without change, or increase:

breastfeeding?

STOPPED 1
DECREASED 2
INCREASED 3
NO CHANGE 4
NOT GIVEN 5

other milk?

STOPPED 1
DECREASED 2
INCREASED 3
NO CHANGE 4
NOT GIVEN 5

other liquids?

STOPPED 1
DECREASED 2
INCREASED 3
NO CHANGE 4
NOT GIVEN 5

solid/semi-solid food?

STOPPED 1
DECREASED 2
INCREASED 3
NO CHANGE 4
NOT GIVEN 5

Value	Category
10	Unchanged
20	Increased
30	Reduced
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
40	Stopped completely
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea and were still breastfed in the past 2 weeks, DIABFEDAMT (H18A) indicates whether the child was breastfed more, less, or the same amount as usual during the illness. Question wording and response categories vary across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Diarrhea, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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