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Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 1987
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MAR_1987_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère de la Santé Publique, Service des Etudes et de L'Information Sanitaire [Morocco], et Insitute for Resource Development/Westinghouse., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child porridge or gruel in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDPORR24H)

Data file: MAR1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 703
End: 703
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
515) At any time yesterday or last night, was (NAME) given any of the following:

PLAIN WATER?

YES 1
NO 2

JUICE?

YES 1
NO 2

TEA?

YES 1
NO 2

POWDERED MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

COW'S MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

GOAT'S MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

CONCENTRATED MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER LIQUID?

YES 1
NO 2

GRUEL?

YES 1
NO 2

SOLID FOODS?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
MAFEDPORR24H (V412B) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child porridge or gruel 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 porridge or gruel 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 MAFEDPORR24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate porridge or gruel during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDPORR24H to determine whether the child ate porridge or gruel during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDPORR24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child porridge or gruel during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDPORRWKD reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child porridge or gruel during the past week.

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