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

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Age (in months) for solid or mushy food (W_AGESOLID_ALL)

Data file: SEN1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1832

End: 1832

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

437. How many months old was (NAME) when you began to give him one of these foods or drinks regularly?

Fresh milk/boxed milk (other than mother's)?
Water?
Quinquéliba?
Fruit juice?
Other liquids?
Other solid or broth foods?

IF LESS THAN A MONTH, RECORD '00.'

FRESH MILK/BOXED MILK

AGE IN MONTHS_____
NEVER GIVEN REGULARLY 96

WATER

AGE IN MONTHS_____
NEVER GIVEN REGULARLY 96

QUINQUELIBA

AGE IN MONTHS_____
NEVER GIVEN REGULARLY 96

FRUIT JUICE

AGE IN MONTHS_____
NEVER GIVEN REGULARLY 96

OTHER LIQUIDS

AGE IN MONTHS_____
NEVER GIVEN REGULARLY 96

OTHER SOLID OR BROTH FOODS

AGE IN MONTHS_____ (FOR SECOND-TO-LAST BIRTH AND LATER BIRTHS, GO TO 440)
NEVER GIVEN REGULARLY 96 (FOR SECOND-TO-LAST BIRTH AND LATER BIRTHS, GO TO 440)

Value	Category
1	AGESOLID_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, AGESOLID_ALL (M26_x) reports the age, in months, at which the child was first given solid or mushy food on a regular basis.

AGESOLID_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (AGESOLID_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., AGESOLID_02, AGESOLID_03, AGESOLID_04, AGESOLID_05, and AGESOLID_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If AGESOLID_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in AGESOLID_ALL was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. 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 AGESOLID_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some samples, noted in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only (AGESOLID_01).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Breastfeeding and infant feeding Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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