Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Zimbabwe, 2015

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Reference ID

ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

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Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Mother fed youngest child meat in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDMEAT24H)

Data file: ZWE2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1588

End: 1588

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

649. CHECK 215 AND 218, ALL ROWS: NUMBER OF CHILDREN BORN IN 2013-2015 LIVING WITH RESPONDENT

ONE OR MORE:

NAME OF YOUNGEST CHILD LIVING WITH HER ___ (GO TO 650)
NONE (GO TO 701)

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDMEAT24H (V414H) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any meat, such as beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken, or duck, 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 meat in the previous day, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDMEAT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate meat during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDMEAT24H (M37T) to determine whether the child ate meat during the previous day. See Comparability.

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Concept

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

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