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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015
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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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How AIDS transmitted from mother to child: Breastfeeding (B_AIDTRANFEED)

Data file: AFG2015-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 800
End: 800
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
908. Can HIV be transmitted from a mother to her baby:

During pregnancy?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

During delivery?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

By breastfeeding?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
7 Don't know
1 Yes
0 No
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
AIDTRANFEED (V774C) indicates whether the woman acknowledged transmission during breastfeeding as a way that AIDS can be passed from mother to child. While this information was generally collected using a yes/no format, some surveys used an open-ended question instead. See Comparability.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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