National Family Health Survey 2015-2016

India, 2015 - 2016

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Reference ID

IND_2015_DHS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW)

Collection(s)

MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys

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Weight at birth/recall (m19a)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 94

End: 94

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	Not weighed
1	From written card
2	From mother's recall
8	Don't know
9	Special answers

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

Whether the weight at birth (variable M19) was recorded from a health card (code 1) or from the mother=s recall (code 2). Children who were not weighed at birth are coded 0.

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