Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2004

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MWI_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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National Statistical Office [Malawi] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

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Times child fed any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods in past 24 hours (W_FEDANY24HX_ALL)

Data file: MWI2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2578

End: 2578

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

493. Now I would like to ask you about the types of foods (NAME FROM Q. 491) ate yesterday.
In total, how many times yesterday during the day or at night did (NAME FROM Q. 491) eat (ITEM)?
IF 7 OR MORE TIMES, RECORD '7'. IF DON'T KNOW, RECORD '8'.

a. Bread, scone, maize meal (ngaiwa), maize flour (ufawoyera), millet, rice, sorghum, or any other food made from grains?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

b. Pumpkin, red or yellow yams or squash, carrots, or yellow/orange sweet potatoes?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

c. Any other food made from roots or tubers, for example cocoyams, irish potatoes, white sweet potatoes, white yams, cassava, or other local roots or tubers?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

d. Any dark green leafy vegetables such as amaranth, cassava, pumpkin, or sweet potato leaves, chinese cabbage, greens, kale, or other dark green leafy vegetables?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

e. Mango or papaya?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

f. Any other fruits and vegetables [for example, bananas, apples, green beans, avocados, tomatoes]?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

g. Meat, poultry, fish, shellfish, insects, rodents, or eggs?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

h. Any food made from legumes [for example, beans, soybeans, groundnuts, lentils, pigeon peas, or cowpeas]?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

i. Cheese, milk or yoghurt?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

j. Any food made with oil, fat, margarine or butter?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

k. Any other foods?

NUMBER OF TIMES_____

Value	Category
1	FEDANY24HX_ALL available

Description

Definition

FEDANY24HX_ALL (M39_x) reports how many times the women gave her child any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime.

The related variable FEDANY24H_ALL (M39A_x) indicates whether the woman gave her child any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods in the previous 24 hours.

FEDANY24HX_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (FEDANY24HX_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., FEDANY24HX_02, FEDANY24HX_03, FEDANY24HX_04, FEDANY24HX_05, and FEDANY24HX_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If FEDANY24HX_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For Phase VI forward, information for this variable was collected on the youngest surviving child under age 2. If the respondent's last-born child had died but the second-to-last child was still alive, FEDANY24HX_02 would indicate whether the respondent's second-to-last child was given solid, semi-solid, or soft foods only if the last-born child had died. Data were hypothetically collected on up to the sixth-most-recent birth, but if no women in the survey had 6 births and the 5 most recent had died, FEDANY24HX_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

In previous phases, information was collected on all surviving children, 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 FEDANY24HX_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

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Concept

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

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