Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004

Reference ID

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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Jan 16, 2021

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Jan 16, 2021

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Child got same, increased, or decreased food with diarrhea (C_DIAFOODUPDN)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1446

End: 1447

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

477 When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she offered less than usual to eat, about the same amount, more than usual, or nothing to eat?
IF LESS, PROBE: Was he/she offered much less than usual to eat or somewhat less?

MUCH LESS 1
SOMEWHAT LESS 2
ABOUT THE SAME 3
MORE 4
STOPPED FOOD 5
NEVER GAVE FOOD 6
DK 8

Value	Category
10	Same
20	Increase
30	Decrease
31	Somewhat less
32	Much less
33	Stop entirely
40	Never gave food
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

For surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea in the past 2 weeks, DIAFOODUPDN (H39) indicates whether the child was given more, less, or the same amount of food during the illness. Question wording differences limit the comparability of DIAFOODUPDN across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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