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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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When child put to breast (m34)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 98
End: 100
Width: 3
Range: 0 - 299
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Child who were ever breastfed (M4 <> 94).
Categories
Value Category
0 Immediately
100 Within first hour
101 Hours: 1
199 Hours: number missing
201 Days: 1
299 Days: number missing
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
Time after the birth at which the respondent first breastfed the child. The first digit gives the units in which the respondent gave her answer. Code 0 means the child was breastfed immediately after birth, code 1 indicates the response was in hours, code 2 in days, with code 9 meaning a special answer was given. The last two digits give the time in the units given. Any value for time greater than 90 is a special answer. The response "Immediately" is recorded as 000.
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