Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1992 - 1993

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Reference ID

IND_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: IND1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 936

End: 937

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

476. Did you increase the number of breastfeeds or reduce them, or did you stop completely?
[ASK FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH ONLY]

INCREASED 1
REDUCED 2
STOPPED COMPLETELY 3

Categories

Value	Category
10	Unchanged
20	Increased
30	Reduced
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
40	Stopped completely
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 and were still breastfed in the past 2 weeks, DIABFEDAMT (H18A) indicates whether the child was breastfed more, less, or the same amount as usual during the illness. Question wording and response categories vary across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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