Demographic and Health Survey 1994 - IPUMS Subset

Côte d'Ivoire, 1994

Reference ID

CIV_1994_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Institut National de la Statistique, Ministère Délégué Auprès du Premier Ministre, Chargé de l'Economie, des Finances et du Plan [Côte d'Ivoire] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Mother fed youngest child sugar water in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSUGWAT24H)

Data file: CIV1994-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 976

End: 976

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

431) At any time yesterday or last night, was (NAME) given any of the following:
[FOR LAST BIRTH ONLY]

Plain water?

YES 1
NO 2

Sugar water?

YES 1
NO 2

Rice water?

YES 1
NO 2

Juice?

YES 1
NO 2

Herbal tea?

YES 1
NO 2

Baby formula?

YES 1
NO 2

Fresh milk?

YES 1
NO 2

Tinned or powdered milk?

YES 1
NO 2

Other liquids?

YES 1
NO 2

Any solid or semi-solid food?

YES 1
NO 2

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAFEDSUGWAT24H (V409A) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child sugar water during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child.

Although the question wording asks about foods given to a specific child during the previous day, responses relate to the mother, so all young children of the mother are coded the same way. If the mother reported she gave her youngest surviving child sugar water in the previous day, all of her children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDSUGWAT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank sugar water during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDSUGWAT24H (M37B) to determine whether the child drank sugar water during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDSUGWAT24HX (V469B) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child sugar water during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDSUGWATWKD (V470B) reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child sugar water during the past week.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Foods fed child in past 24 hours Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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