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Demographic and Health Survey 2011

Ethiopia, 2010 - 2011
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Reference ID
ETH_2010_DHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health (MOH), Central Statistical Agency (CSA)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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When child put to breast (m34)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 91
End: 93
Width: 3
Range: 0 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Child who were ever breastfed (M4 <> 94).
Categories
Value Category
0 Immediately
100 Within first hour
101 Hours: 1
199 Hours: number missing
201 Days: 1
299 Days: number 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 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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