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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992
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NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child fed any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDANY24H)

Data file: NAM1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 939
End: 939
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
431) At any time yesterday or last night was (NAME) given any of the following?
[LAST BIRTH ONLY]

Plain water?
Sugar water?
Juice?
Herbal tea?
Baby formula?
Fresh/sour milk?
Tinned or powdered milk?
Other liquids?
Any solid or mushy food?

PLAIN WATER

YES 1
NO 2

SUGAR WATER

YES 1
NO 2

JUICE

YES 1
NO 2

HERBAL TEA

YES 1
NO 2

BABY FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2

FRESH/SOUR MILK

YES 1
NO 2

TINNED/POWDERED MILK

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2

SOLID.MUSHY FOOD

YES 1
NO 2
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
MAFEDANY24H (V414) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods 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 any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods in the previous day, all of her children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDANY24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDANY24H (M39A) to determine whether the child ate any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods during the previous day. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child feeding, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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