Demographic and Health Survey 1993-1994 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1993 - 1994

Reference ID

BGD_1993_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Aug 15, 2018

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Aug 23, 2018

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Person who helped most to decide duration of breastfeeding (B_PPBFHELPWHO)

Data file: BGD1994-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 679

End: 680

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

440. Among the persons with whom you talked about breastfeeding, who would you say helped you the most with your decision about how long to breastfeed?

DOCTOR 01
NURSE OR MIDWIFE 02
PHARMACIST 03
TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANT 04
FIELDWORKER, FWA 05
HUSBAND 06
MOTHER 07
SISTER 08
MOTHER-IN-LAW 09
SISTER-IN-LAW 10
OTHER RELATIVE 11
OTHER (SPECIFY) 12

Categories

Value	Category
10	Health worker
11	Doctor
12	Nurse/midwife
13	Pharmacist
14	Traditional birth attendant
15	Fieldworker
20	Relative
21	Husband
22	Mother
23	Sister
24	Mother-in-law
25	Sister-in-law
26	Other relative
30	Other
99	NIU (not in universe)

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.

Description

Definition

PPBFHELPWHO indicates the person the respondent consulted about breastfeeding who provided the most help about how long to breastfeed her child.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Breastfeeding and infant feeding Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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