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Demographic and Health Survey 2003-2004 - IPUMS Subset

Madagascar, 2003 - 2004
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MDG_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et du Budget [Madagascar] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Child got same, increased, or decreased food with diarrhea (C_DIAFOODUPDN)

Data file: MDG2003-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1529
End: 1530
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
477. When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she given less than usual to eat, about the same amount, more than usual, or nothing to eat?
IF LESS, PROBE: Was he/she given much less than usual to eat or somewhat less?

MUCH LESS 1
SOMEWHAT LESS 2
ABOUT THE SAME 3
MORE 4
STOPPED FOOD 5
NEVER GAVE FOOD 6
DOESN'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Same
20 Increase
30 Decrease
31 Somewhat less
32 Much less
33 Stop entirely
40 Never gave food
97 Don't know
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFOODUPDN (H39) indicates whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of food during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFOODUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

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