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Demographic and Health Survey 2014 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2014
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LSO_2014_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health [Lesotho] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Eaten anything in 30 minutes before first blood pressure measurement (C_BPTFOOD)

Data file: LSO2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1199
End: 1199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
101C) Before taking your blood pressure, I would like to ask a few questions about things that may affect these measurements. Have you done any of the following within the past 30 minutes:

a) Eaten anything?
b) Had coffee, tea, cola or other drink that has caffeine?
c) Smoked any tobacco product?

A) EATEN

YES 1
NO 2

B) HAD CAFFEINATED DRINK

YES 1
NO 2

C) SMOKED

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
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
For women who agreed to have blood pressure measured, BPTFOOD indicates whether the woman had eaten anything in the 30 minutes before the first blood pressure measurement. In general, individuals are advised not to eat or drink anything other than water for 30 minutes before the blood pressure measurement.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Blood pressure Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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