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

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

Page views

69990

Mother fed youngest child porridge or gruel in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDPORR24H)

Data file: NER1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 936

End: 936

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

431) FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH: At any time yesterday or last night did you give (NAME) one of the following things:

Plain water?
Sugar water?
Juice?
Herbal tea?
Tinned baby formula?
Other tinned or powdered milk?
Fresh (animal) milk?
Other liquids?
Porridge?
Other food specially made for the child?
Family meal?

WATER

YES 1
NO 2

SUGAR WATER

YES 1
NO 2

JUICE

YES 1
NO 2

HERBAL TEA

YES 1
NO 2

TINNED BABY FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2

POWDERED/TINNED MILK

YES 1
NO 2

FRESH MILK

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2

PORRIDGE

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER FOOD MADE FOR THE CHILD

YES 1
NO 2

FAMILY MEAL

YES 1
NO 2

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAFEDPORR24H (V412B) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child porridge or gruel 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 porridge or gruel 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 MAFEDPORR24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate porridge or gruel during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDPORR24H to determine whether the child ate porridge or gruel during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDPORR24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child porridge or gruel during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDPORRWKD reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child porridge or gruel during the past week.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Foods fed child in past 24 hours Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

Back to Catalog