Demographic and Health Survey 1989-1990 - IPUMS Subset

Sudan, 1989 - 1990

Reference ID

SDN_1989_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics, Ministry of Economic and National Planning, the Republic of the Sudan, and the Institute for Resource Development/Macro International, Inc. (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: SDN1989-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 659

End: 660

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

438 During the diarrhea, did you continue breastfeading as usual, or did you increase the number of feeds or reduce it, or did you stop completely?

MORE 1
LESS 2
SAME 3
STOPPED BREASTFEEDING 4

Value	Category
10	Unchanged
20	Increased
30	Reduced
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
40	Stopped completely
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea and were still breastfed in the past 2 weeks, DIABFEDAMT (H18A) indicates whether the child was breastfed more, less, or the same amount as usual during the illness. Question wording and response categories vary across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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