Definition
DELFORMSAMP_ALL indicates whether the respondent received a free sample of infant formula from the health facility staff after delivery.
DELFORMSAMP_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (DELFORMSAMP_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., DELFORMSAMP_02, DELFORMSAMP_03, DELFORMSAMP_04, DELFORMSAMP_05, and DELFORMSAMP_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If DELFORMSAMP_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then DELFORMSAMP_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.