Demographic and Health Survey 1995 - IPUMS Subset

Uganda, 1995

Reference ID

UGA_1995_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Statistics Department, Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning 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: UGA1995-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1216

End: 1217

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

469) When a child has diarrhea, should he/she be given less food than usual, about the same amount, or more than usual?

LESS FOOD 1
ABOUT SAME AMOUNT OF FOOD 2
MORE FOOD 3
DOES NOT 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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