Demographic and Health Survey 1990 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1990

Reference ID

NGA_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Federal Office of Statistics [Nigeria] and Institute for Resource Development/Macro International Inc. (IRD)., 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: NGA1990-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1772

End: 1772

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

436. How many months old was (NAME) when you started giving the following on a regular basis?:

Fomula or milk other than breastmilk, such as soya milk?

AGE IN MONTHS __
NOT GIVEN 96

Water or other liquids?

AGE IN MONTHS __
NOT GIVEN 96

Any solid or mushy food, such as mashed banana or mashed grain?

AGE IN MONTHS __
NOT GIVEN 96

Value	Category
1	AGESOLID_ALL available

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 -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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