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Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991
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PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child gripe water in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDGPWAT24H)

Data file: PAK1991-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 957
End: 957
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
439. At any time yesterday or last night was (NAME) given any of the following? IF YES: How many times?

Plain Water?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Ghutti?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Sugar or honey water?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Juice?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Herbal tea?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Gripe Water?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Baby formula?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Fresh milk?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Tinned or powdered milk?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Other liquids, such as fennel water or cardamom water?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______

Any solid or mushy food?

YES 1
NO 2
NUMBER OF TIMES ______
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
MAFEDGPWAT24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child gripe water (an infusion of herbs, intended to treat colic) 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 gripe water 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 MAFEDGPWAT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank gripe water during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDGPWAT24H to determine whether the child drank gripe water during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDGPWAT24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child gripe water during the previous 24 hours.

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