Demographic and Health Survey 1987 - IPUMS Subset

Burundi, 1987

Reference ID

BDI_1987_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Département de la Population du Ministère de l'Intérieur [Burundi], Insitute for Resrouce Development (IRD)., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence

Metadata

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Mother fed youngest child fed any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDANY24H)

Data file: BDI1987-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 764

End: 764

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

414) At any time yesterday or last night, was (name of last child) given any of the following:

PLAIN WATER

YES 1
NO 2

JUICE?

YES 1
NO 2

POWDERED MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

COW'S MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

GOAT'S MILK?

YES 1
NO 2

BANANA OR SORGHUM BEER?

YES 1
NO 2

BROTH?

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER LIQUID?

YES 1
NO 2

SOLID FOODS?

YES 1
NO 2

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDANY24H (V414) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods 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 any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods 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 MAFEDANY24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDANY24H (M39A) to determine whether the child ate any solid, semi-solid, or soft foods during the previous day. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child feeding, general Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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