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Demographic and Health Survey 2010

Malawi, 2010
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Reference ID
MWI_2010_DHS_v01_M
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National Statistical Office (NSO), Community Health Sciences Unit (CHSU)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Months of breastfeeding (m5)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 61
End: 62
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
94 Never breastfed
97 Inconsistent
98 DK
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
The calculated months of breastfeeding gives the duration of breastfeeding as in M4, but with the duration calculated if the respondent is still breastfeeding the child or the child was breastfed until it died. Inconsistent durations based on the original reporting of the duration of breastfeeding are recoded to 97. In cases where the duration was one month longer than the interval the duration was shortened by one month, consistent with the "Rule of one" applied in DHS I. If the duration of breastfeeding exceeded the age of death of the child, the duration of breastfeeding was changed to the age at death of the child.
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