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Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004
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LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Days mother took antenatal iron supplement (C_ANIROND)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1273
End: 1275
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
418 During the whole pregnancy, for how many days did you take the tablets or syrup?
IF ANSWER IS NOT NUMERIC, PROBE FOR APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF DAYS.

NUMBER OF DAYS ___ ___ ___
DON'T KNOW 998
Categories
Value Category
000 Not taken
996 Inconsistent
997 Don't know
998 Missing
999 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 children whose mothers received or purchased an iron supplement while the child was in utero, ANIROND (M46) indicates the number of days the child's mother took iron tablets or syrup.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Antenatal iron supplements Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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