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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 1992
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MDG_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Centre National de Recherches sur l'Environnement [Madagascar] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Reason child was not breastfed (C_WHYNOBRFD)

Data file: MDG1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 869
End: 870
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
425. Why did you not breastfeed (NAME)?

MOTHER SICK/WEAK 01 (GO TO 435)
CHILD SICK/WEAK 02 (GO TO 435)
CHILD DIED 03 (GO TO 435)
PROBLEMS WITH BREASTS/NIPPLES 04 (GO TO 435)
NO MILK 05 (GO TO 435)
MOTHER WORKS 06 (GO TO 435)
CHILD REFUSED 07 (GO TO 435)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 08 (GO TO 435)
Categories
Value Category
10 Health problem
11 Mother ill or weak
12 Child ill or weak
13 Child died
20 Breastmilk problem
21 Nipple, breast problem
22 Insufficient milk
30 Mother busy
31 Mother working
32 Inconvenient
40 Child's attitude
41 Child refused
42 Child preferred bottle
50 Reproductive/family planning reason
51 Mother became pregnant
52 Started using method
60 Mother does not know how
70 Other reason
71 Child has grown
72 Mother's figure concern
95 Other
98 Missing
99 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 children who were born in the three to five years preceding the survey and were not breastfed, WHYNOBRFD (M20) reports why they were not breastfed.

concept

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