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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1992
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NER_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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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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Reason did not breastfeed (W_WHYNOBRFD_ALL)

Data file: NER1992-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1882
End: 1882
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
425) Why did you not breastfeed (NAME)?

MOTHER ILL/WEAK 01 (GO TO 435)
CHILD ILL/WEAK 02 (GO TO 435)
CHILD DIED 03 (GO TO 435)
BREAST/NIPPLE PROBLEM 04 (GO TO 435)
INSUFFICIENT MILK 05 (GO TO 435)
MOTHER WORKING 06 (GO TO 435)
CHILD REFUSED 07 (GO TO 435)
OTHER (SPECIFY): ___ 08 (GO TO 435)
Categories
Value Category
1 WHYNOBRFD_ALL available
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 women who gave birth in the last three to five years and never breastfed the child, WHYNOBRFD_ALL (M20_x) reports why they did not breastfeed.

WHYNOBRFD_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (WHYNOBRFD_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., WHYNOBRFD_02, WHYNOBRFD_03, WHYNOBRFD_04, WHYNOBRFD_05, and WHYNOBRFD_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If WHYNOBRFD_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, 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 WHYNOBRFD_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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