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Demographic and Health Survey 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2001
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NPL_2001_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Nepal], New ERA, and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Gave child colostrum (last birth) (W_BRSFEDCOLOS_01)

Data file: NPL2001-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2202
End: 2202
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
440. Did you give (NAME) the yellow milk from the breast or did you squeeze it out and throw it away before you first put (NAME) to the breast?

GAVE YELLOW MILK 1
SQUEEZED AND DISCARDED 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
BRSFEDCOLOS_01 indicates whether the woman gave the child colostrum, the first, thick milk from the breast (for the last birth).

concept

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