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National Family Health Survey 2015-2016

India, 2015 - 2016
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IND_2015_DHS_v01_M
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)
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MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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Months of breastfeeding (m5)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 68
End: 69
Width: 2
Range: 0 - 99
Format: Numeric

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