Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey 2015-16, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Tanzania, 2015 - 2016

Reference ID

TZA_2015_DHS-MIS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children [Tanzania], Ministry of Health [Zanzibar], National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania], Office of the Chief Government Statistician, and ICF, Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Created on

Aug 15, 2018

Last modified

Aug 22, 2018

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Mother fed youngest child soup or broth in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSOUP24H)

Data file: TZA2015-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAFEDSOUP24H (V412C) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child.

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 clear broth or soup in the previous day, all of her children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDSOUP24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank clear broth or soup during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDSOUP24H to determine whether the child drank clear broth or soup during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDSOUP24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDSOUPWKD reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child clear broth or soup during the past week.

concept

Concept

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

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