Demographic and Health Survey 1994

Zimbabwe, 1994

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ZWE_1994_DHS_v01_M

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Central Statistical Office

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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: 73

End: 74

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).

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	Started using method
11	Husband disapproved
96	Other
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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