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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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HIV transmitted from mother to child: By breastfeeding (M_AIDTRANFEEDMN)

Data file: LSO2004-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 550
End: 550
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
714 Can the virus that causes AIDS be transmitted from a mother to her baby:
During pregnancy?

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

During delivery?

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

By breastfeeding?

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
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
AIDTRANFEEDMN (MV774C) indicates whether the man acknowledged transmission during breastfeeding as a way that AIDS can be passed from mother to child. While this information was generally collected using a yes/no format, some surveys used an open-ended question instead. See Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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