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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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Mother fed youngest child other liquid in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDOTHLIQ24H)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1340
End: 1340
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
492 Now I would like to ask you about liquids (NAME FROM Q. 491) drank yesterday. In total, how many times yesterday during the day or at night did (NAME FROM Q. 491) drink (ITEM)?
IF 7 OR MORE TIMES, RECORD '7'. IF DON'T KNOW, RECORD '8'.

a. Plain water?

YESTERDAY/LAST NIGHT NUMBER OF TIMES____

b. Commercially produced infant formula?

YESTERDAY/LAST NIGHT NUMBER OF TIMES____

c. Any other milk such as tinned, powdered, or fresh animal milk?

YESTERDAY/LAST NIGHT NUMBER OF TIMES____

d. Fruit juice?

YESTERDAY/LAST NIGHT NUMBER OF TIMES____

e. Any other liquids?

YESTERDAY/LAST NIGHT NUMBER OF TIMES____
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
MAFEDOTHLIQ24H (V413) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child other liquids during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

Although the question wording asks about foods given to a specific child during the previous day, responses relate to the mother, so all young children of the mother are coded the same way. If the mother reported she gave her youngest surviving child other liquids in the previous day, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDOTHLIQ24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank other liquids during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDOTHLIQ24H (M37L) to determine whether the child drank other liquids during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDOTHLIQ24HX (V469L) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child other liquids during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDOTHLIQWKD (V470L) reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child other liquids during the past week.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Foods fed child in past 24 hours Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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