Demographic and Maternal and Child Health Survey 1991/1992 - IPUMS Subset

Yemen, Republic of, 1991 - 1992

Reference ID

YEM_1991_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistical Organization (CSO) [Yemen] and Pan Arab Project for Child Development (PAPCHILD) [Egypt] and Macro International Inc. (MI)., Minnesota Population Center

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Breastfeed on demand or on schedule (W_BRSFEDSCHED_ALL)

Data file: YEM1991-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1862

End: 1862

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

611) Do you breastfeed (NAME) whenever he/she wants or according to a fixed schedule?

DEMAND 1
SCHEDULE 2
BOTH 3

Value	Category
1	BRSFEDSCHED_ALL available

Description

Definition

BRSFEDSCHED_ALL indicates whether the woman breastfeeds her child on demand or on a schedule.

BRSFEDSCHED_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BRSFEDSCHED_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BRSFEDSCHED_02, BRSFEDSCHED_03, BRSFEDSCHED_04, BRSFEDSCHED_05, and BRSFEDSCHED_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BRSFEDSCHED_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then BRSFEDSCHED_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some surveys, noted in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only.

concept

Concept

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

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