Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1992

Reference ID

NER_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Statistique et des Comptes Nationaux, Direction Générale du Plan, Ministère des Finances et du Plan [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Child got same, increased, or decreased food with diarrhea (C_DIAFOODUPDN)

Data file: NER1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1015

End: 1016

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

469) Did you give him/her the same amount to eat as before the diarrhea, or more, or less?

SAME 1
MORE 2
LESS 3
DON'T KNOW 8

Categories

Value	Category
10	Same
20	Increase
30	Decrease
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
33	Stop entirely
40	Never gave food
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 in the past 2 weeks, DIAFOODUPDN (H39) indicates whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of food during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFOODUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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