Enquête Démographique et de Santé 1998

Cameroon, 1998

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CMR_1998_DHS_v01_M

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Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population (BUCREP)

Collection(s)

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

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When child put to breast (v426)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 57

End: 59

Width: 3

Range: 0 - 999

Format: Numeric

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Question pretext

Respondents whose last child born in the last three/ five years was ever breastfed. (V417 > 0 and M4(1) < > 94).

Value	Category
0	Immediately

Others

Notes

Time after the birth at which the respondent first breastfed the last child. The first digit gives the units in which the respondent gave her answer. Code 0 means the child was breastfed immediately after birth, code 1 indicates the response was in hours, code 2 in days, with code 9 meaning a special answer was given. The last two digits give the time in the units given. Any value for time greater than 90 is a special answer. The response "Immediately" is recorded as 000.

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