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Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016
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NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Children's weight taken: At other health contact (B_KIDWEIGHOTH)

Data file: NPL2016-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1270
End: 1270
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
653K. Was weight taken at the following health contacts?
a) at birth?
b) at immunization?
c) at vitamin A distribution?
d) at sick child visit?
f) other contacts?

AT BIRTH

YES 1
NO 2

IMMUNIZATION

YES 1
NO 2

VITAMIN A DISTRIBUTION

YES 1
NO 2

SICK CHILD VISITS

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER (SPECIFY) ___

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
KIDWEIGHOTH indicates whether the respondent's young children were weighed at some other health contact. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Breastfeeding and infant feeding Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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