Demographic and Health Survey 2006

Mali, 2006

Reference ID

MLI_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

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Cellule de Planification et de Statistique du Ministere de la Sante' (CPS/MS) [Mali], Direction Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Informatique du Ministere de l'Economie, de l'Industrie et du Commerce (DNSI/MEIC) [Mali], and Macro International Inc, Minnesota Population Center

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Days mother fed youngest child plain water in past week (C_MAFEDWATERWKD)

Data file: MLI2006-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: -

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Questions and instructions

Value	Category
0	0
1	1
2	2
3	3
4	4
5	5
6	6
7	7
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAFEDWATERWKD (V470A) reports how many days, out of the past seven days, the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child plain water. This variable 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 week, 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 plain water in the previous week, all of her children in the data are coded as "yes" (codes "1" through "7"), including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDWATERWKD thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank plain water during the previous week. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDWATERWKD (M37A) to determine how many days the child drank plain water during the previous week. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDWATER24H (V409) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child plain water during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDWATER24HX (V469A) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child plain water during the previous 24 hours.

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Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Days child fed foods in past week Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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