Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

India, 1992 - 1993

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Reference ID

IND_1992_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

International Institute for Population Sciences., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Reason child was not breastfed (C_WHYNOBRFD)

Data file: IND1992-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 849

End: 850

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

431. Why did you not breastfeed (NAME)?

MOTHER ILL/WEAK 01(GO TO 442)
CHILD ILL/WEAK 02 (GO TO 442)
CHILD DIED 03(GO TO 442)
NIPPLE/BREAST PROBLEM 04 (GO TO 442)
INSUFFICIENT MILK 05 (GO TO 442)
MOTHER WORKING 06 (GO TO 442)
CHILD REFUSED 07 (GO TO 442)
OTHER (SPECIFY) ______ 08 (GO TO 442)

Categories

Value	Category
10	Health problem
11	Mother ill or weak
12	Child ill or weak
13	Child died
20	Breastmilk problem
21	Nipple, breast problem
22	Insufficient milk
30	Mother busy
31	Mother working
32	Inconvenient
40	Child's attitude
41	Child refused
42	Child preferred bottle
50	Reproductive/family planning reason
51	Mother became pregnant
52	Started using method
60	Mother does not know how
70	Other reason
71	Child has grown
72	Mother's figure concern
95	Other
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 children who were born in the three to five years preceding the survey and were not breastfed, WHYNOBRFD (M20) reports why they were not breastfed.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child's breastfeeding Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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