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Demographic and Health Survey 1990-1991 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1990 - 1991
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PAK_1990_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies [Pakistan] and IRD/Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Age (in months) for eating solid or mushy food daily (W_AGESOLIDAILY_ALL)

Data file: PAK1991-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1935
End: 1935
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
448. How many months old was (NAME) when you started giving him/her solid or mushy foods every day?

AGE IN MONTHS______
NOT GIVEN 96
Categories
Value Category
1 AGESOLIDAILY_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
AGESOLIDAILY_ALL reports the age, in months, at which the woman's child started eating solid or mushy foods daily.

AGESOLIDAILY_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (AGESOLIDAILY_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., AGESOLIDAILY_02, AGESOLIDAILY_03, AGESOLIDAILY_04, AGESOLIDAILY_05, and AGESOLIDAILY_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If AGESOLIDAILY_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in AGESOLIDAILY_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 AGESOLIDAILY_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

The related variable, AGESOLID_ALL (M26_x), reports the age, in months, at which the woman's child started eating solid or mushy foods regularly.

concept

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