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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Mother fed youngest child sugar water in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSUGWAT24H)

Data file: SDN1989-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 628

End: 628

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

415 At any time yesterday or last night, was (NAME OF LAST CHILD) given any of the following:
Sugar water?
Plain water?
Juice?
Powdered milk?
Cow's or goat's milk?
Bottled baby's formula
Any other liquid?
Any solid or mushy food?

SUGAR WATER

YES 1
NO 2

PLAIN WATER

YES 1
NO 2

JUICE

YES 1
NO 2

POWERED MILK

YES 1
NO 2

COM'S OR GOAT'S MILK

YES 1
NO 2

BOTTLED BABY'S FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2

ANY OTHER LIQUID (SPECIFY) ______

YES 1
NO 2

ANY SOLID OR MUSHY FOOD

YES 1
NO 2

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDSUGWAT24H (V409A) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child sugar water 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 sugar water 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 MAFEDSUGWAT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank sugar water during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDSUGWAT24H (M37B) to determine whether the child drank sugar water during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDSUGWAT24HX (V469B) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child sugar water during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDSUGWATWKD (V470B) reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child sugar water during the past week.

concept

Concept

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

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