Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008

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Reference ID

NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Flag for breastfeeding, problem with duration (C_BRSFDFLAG)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1705

End: 1705

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
9	NIU (not in universe)
0	No flag
1	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview
2	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview by only 1 month
3	Greater than interval between birth and age at death
4	During pregnancy in calendar
8	Missing

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

For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, BRSFDFLAG (M27) is a flag variable that indicates the type of problem, if any, found in editing responses on their duration of breastfeeding. Cases without a problem are coded 0.

For duration of breastfeeding, see BRSFEDUR (M4).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child's breastfeeding Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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