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Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 1988
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ZWE_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Central Statistical Office [Zimbabwe] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child fruit in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDFRUIT24H)

Data file: ZWE1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 762
End: 762
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
420) At any time in the last 24 hours, was (NAME OF LAST CHILD) given any of the following:

Plain water?
Juice?
Powdered milk?
Cow's or goat's milk?
Formula?
Porridge?
Sadza?
Sour milk?
Fruit?
Potatoes?
Egg?
Any other liquid?
Any other solid or mushy food?

PLAIN WATER
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don’t know
8 Missing
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
MAFEDFRUIT24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child (unspecified) fruit during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. 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 day, 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 fruit in the previous day, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDFRUIT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate fruit during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDFRUIT24H to determine whether the child ate fruit during the previous day. See Comparability.

MAFEDFRUITWKD reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child fruit during the past week.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Foods fed child in past 24 hours Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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