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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Post-partum check: Counseled mother on breastfeeding (C_PPBFHELP)

Data file: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1631
End: 1631
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
9 NIU (not in universe)
8 Missing
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 born in the five years preceding the survey, PPBFHELP (M78D) indicates whether a health care provider counseled the child's mother on breastfeeding in the first two days after the child's birth.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child health postpartum Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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