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Demographic and Health Survey 1986 - IPUMS Subset

Senegal, 1986
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SEN_1986_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Direction de la Statistique du Ministère de l'Economie et des Finances [Senegal] and Institute for Resource Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center
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Reason mother stopped breastfeeding child (C_WHYSTBRFD)

Data file: SEN1986-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 719
End: 720
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
417. Why did you stop breast feeding (NAME)?

WEANING 01
CHILD ILL 02
CHILD DIED 03
REFUSED TO DRINK 04
MOTHER ILL 05
NO MILK 06
PREGNANCY 07
ARTIFICIAL MILK 08
OTHER (SPECIFY) ____ 09
Categories
Value Category
15 Improve child health
22 Insufficient milk
21 Nipple, breast problem
14 Child had diarrhea
96 Inconsistent
10 Health problem
11 Mother ill or weak
12 Child ill or weak
13 Child died
97 Don't know if ever breastfed
98 Missing
99 NIU (not in universe)
20 Breastmilk problem
30 Mother busy
31 Mother working
32 Mother at school
33 Inconvenient
40 Child's attitude
41 Child refused
42 Child refused food
43 Child preferred bottle
50 Weaning age
60 Reproductive/family planning reason
61 Became pregnant
62 Started using method
63 Wanted to start method
64 Wanted another child
70 Other reason
71 Husband disapproved
72 Mother's figure concern
95 Other
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 who were born in the three to five years preceding the survey and whose mothers had stopped breastfeeding them, WHYSTBRFD (M21) reports why the mother stopped breastfeeding. Children who were breastfed until they died are automatically coded 13 (Child died) as the reason for stopping breastfeeding.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child's breastfeeding Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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