Demographic and Health Survey 2000 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2000

Reference ID

EGY_2000_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Population [Egypt], National Population Council [Egypt], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Days mother fed youngest child fruit in past week (C_MAFEDFRUITWKD)

Data file: EGY2000-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1166

End: 1167

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

571) On how many days during the past seven days was (NAME) given any of the following:

RECORD THE NUMBER OF DAYS

Plain water?

Any kind of milk (other than breast milk)?

Liquids other than plain water or milk?

Food made from grains like porridge, bread, rice and macaroni?

Sweet potatoes or other foods tubers?

Eggs, fish, or poultry?

Meat?

Fruit?

Any other solid or semi-solid food?

Value	Category
00	0
01	1
02	2
03	3
04	4
05	5
06	6
07	7
97	Don't know
98	Missing
99	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAFEDFRUITWKD reports how many days, out of the past seven days, the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child some (unspecified) fruit. 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 week, 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 fruit in the previous week, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes" (codes "1" through "7"), including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDFRUITWKD thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate fruit during the previous week. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDFRUITWKD to determine how many days the child ate fruit during the previous week. See Comparability.

MAFEDFRUIT24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child fruit during the previous 24 hours

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Days child fed foods in past week Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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