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Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud 1991

Dominican Republic, 1991
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Reference ID
DOM_1991_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Instituto de Estudios de Población y Desarrollo (IEPD), Oficina Nacional de Planificacion (ONAPLAN)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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When child put to breast (v426)

Data file: REC42

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 85
End: 87
Width: 3
Range: 0 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Respondents whose last child born in the last 5 years was ever breastfed. (V208 > 0 and M4(1) < > 94).
Categories
Value Category
0 Immediately
199 Hours - missing
299 Days - missing
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.

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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