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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
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1442
End: 1443
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
476A CHECK 445:

'YES' (BF): When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she offered less than usual to breastfeed, about the same amount, more than usual, or nothing to breastfeed?

'NO' (NOT BF) (GO TO 477)

MUCH LESS 1
SOMEWHAT LESS 2
ABOUT THE SAME 3
MORE 4
NOTHING TO DRINK 5
DON'T KNOW 8
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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