Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1991

Cameroon, 1991

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Reference ID

CMR_1991_DHS_v01_M

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Direction Nationale du Deuxième Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat

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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence

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Reason stopped breastfeeding (m21)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 81

End: 82

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Children who are no longer being breastfed, but were ever breastfed (M4 < > 94 and M4 < > 95). Children who are still breastfeeding but whose mothers were asked the reason they stopped breastfeeding the child due to the flow of the questionnaire are coded 95 when it is possible to tell.

Categories

Value	Category
1	Mother ill, weak
2	Child ill, weak
3	Child died
4	Nipple, breast prob.
5	Insufficient milk
6	Working
7	Child refused
8	Weaning age
9	Became pregnant
10	Other
11	Mother at school
97	Missing ever breastf

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.

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Notes

Reason the respondent stopped breastfeeding the child. Children who breastfed until they died are coded 3 (child died) as the reason stopped breastfeeding. Code 97 indicates cases where data was missing on whether the child was ever breastfed.

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