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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Kenya, 1998
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KEN_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Council for Population and Development [Kenya], Central Bureau of Statistics [Kenya], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Times mother breastfed child during previous day (W_BRSFEDAY_ALL)

Data file: KEN1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2046
End: 2046
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
433. How many times did you breastfeed yesterday during the daylight hours?
IF ANSWER IS NOT NUMERIC, PROBE FOR APPROXIMATE NUMBER.

NUMBER OF DAYLIGHT FEEDINGS _________
Categories
Value Category
1 BRSFEDAY_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 and whose young child is still breastfeeding, BRSFEDAY_ALL (M36_x) reports how many times she breastfed the child the previous day during daylight hours.

BRSFEDAY_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BRSFEDAY_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BRSFEDAY_02, BRSFEDAY_03, BRSFEDAY_04, BRSFEDAY_05, and BRSFEDAY_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BRSFEDAY_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in BRSFEDAY_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 BRSFEDAY_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Many surveys, specified in the Comparison section, collected this information for only the last-born child (BRSFEDAY_01).

concept

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