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 (last birth) (W_BRSFDFLAG_01)

Data file: NGA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2864

End: 2864

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
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
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

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, BRSFDFLAG_01 (M27_01) is a flag variable that indicates the type of problem, if any, found in editing the duration of breastfeeding. Cases without a problem are coded 0.

For duration of breastfeeding, see BRSFEDUR_01 (M4_01).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Breastfeeding and infant feeding Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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