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Demographic and Health Survey 2015-2016 - IPUMS Subset

Malawi, 2015 - 2016
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Reference ID
MWI_2015_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Statistical Office (NSO) [Malawi] and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Child taking iron pills, sprinkles, or syrup, past 7 days (B_IRONSUPKID)

Data file: MWI2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1575
End: 1575
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
606. In the last seven days, was (NAME) given iron pills, sprinkles with iron, or irons syrup like (this/any of these)?

SHOW COMMON TYPES OF PILLS/SPRINKLES/SYRUPS.

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
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
IRONSUPKID (H42) indicates whether the child took iron pills, sprinkles or syrup in the past 7 days.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child feeding, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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