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Demographic and Health Survey 1993, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Burkina Faso, 1992 - 1993
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Reference ID
BFA_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [Burkina Faso] and Macro International Inc, Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Age (in months) for solid or mushy food (W_AGESOLID_ALL)

Data file: BFA1993-W

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Range: 1 - 1
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
1 AGESOLID_ALL available
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 women who gave birth in the last three to five years, AGESOLID_ALL (M26_x) reports the age, in months, at which the child was first given solid or mushy food on a regular basis.

AGESOLID_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (AGESOLID_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., AGESOLID_02, AGESOLID_03, AGESOLID_04, AGESOLID_05, and AGESOLID_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If AGESOLID_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in AGESOLID_ALL was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then AGESOLID_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some samples, noted in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only (AGESOLID_01).

concept

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