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Demographic and Health Survey 2006-07 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2006 - 2007
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Reference ID
PAK_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Aug 15, 2018
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Gave child colostrum (W_BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL)

Data file: PAK2006-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2426
End: 2426
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
489) Did you give the (NAME) the thick milk (colostrum) that comes first or did you discard it?
[ONLY ASKED FOR MOST RECENT PREGNANCY]

GAVE COLOSTRUM 1
DISCARDED IT 2
DO NOT REMEMBER 8
Categories
Value Category
1 BRSFEDCOLOS_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
BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL indicates whether the woman gave the child colostrum, the first, thick milk from the breast.

BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BRSFEDCOLOS_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BRSFEDCOLOS_02, BRSFEDCOLOS_03, BRSFEDCOLOS_04, BRSFEDCOLOS_05, and BRSFEDCOLOS_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in BRSFEDCOLOS_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 BRSFEDCOLOS_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only (BRSFEDCOLOS_01).

concept

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