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Demographic and Health Survey 2003-04 - IPUMS Subset

Morocco, 2003 - 2004
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MAR_2003_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Ministère de la Santé [Morocco], ORC Macro, et Ligue des États Arabes., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child cheese or yogurt in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDCHEESE24H)

Data file: MAR2003-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1279
End: 1279
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
493) How many times yesterday during the day or night did you give (NAME) something to eat of the following:
IF 7 OR MORE TIMES, RECORD 7.
IF DON'T KNOW, RECORD 8.

a. Any food made from grains (e.g. maize, rice, or something similar)?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

b. Red pumpkin, carrots?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

c. Potatoes?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

d. Any green leafy vegetables?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

e. Any fruit with vitamin A?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

f. Other fruits?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

g. Meat, poultry, fish or eggs?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

h. Other food or legumes(e.g. lentils, beans)?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

i. Cheese or yoghurt?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____

j. Other solid food or semi-soft?

NUMBER OF TIMES _____
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
MAFEDCHEESE24H (V414P) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child cheese during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child.

The related variable MAFEDYOGURT24H (V414V) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child yogurt during the previous day. Because FEDCHEESE24H may include children who ate either cheese or yogurt, users may want to combine responses to MAFEDYOGURT24H and MAFEDCHEESE24H to maximize comparability.

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 cheese 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 MAFEDCHEESE24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate cheese during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDCHEESE24H (M37X) to determine whether the child ate cheese during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDCHEESE24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child cheese during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDCHEESEWKD (V470X) reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child cheese 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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