Demographic and Health Survey 1997 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1997

Reference ID

SEN_1997_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction de la Prévision et de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et du Plan [Senegal] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

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Jan 16, 2021

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Jan 16, 2021

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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: SEN1997-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 844

End: 845

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

466. When (NAME) had diarrhea, did you change the number of breast feedings/feedings?
[ASK ONLY FOR MOST RECENT BIRTH]

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 468)

Categories

Value	Category
10	Unchanged
20	Increased
30	Reduced
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
40	Stopped completely
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea and were still breastfed in the past 2 weeks, DIABFEDAMT (H18A) indicates whether the child was breastfed more, less, or the same amount as usual during the illness. Question wording and response categories vary across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Diarrhea, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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