Demographic and Health Survey 2015

Zimbabwe, 2015

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ZWE_2015_DHS_v01_M

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National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT)

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

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Months of breastfeeding (m5)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 61

End: 62

Width: 2

Range: 0 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
93	Ever breastfed, not currently breastfeeding
94	Never breastfed
97	Inconsistent
98	Don't know

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. Since DHS VI, the question on the duration of breastfeeding in months is no longer part of the core questionnaire. Information on duration of breastfeeding in months is therefore no longer available for children who were ever breastfed, but are not currently being breastfed. These cases were set to “93”

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