Definition
MAFEDOTHERWKD (V470P) reports how many days, out of the past seven days, the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any other solid or semi-solid foods. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific food categories included in a particular sample.
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 any other solid or semi-solid foods 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 MAFEDOTHERWKD thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate any other solid or semi-solid foods during the previous week. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDOTHERWKD (M37P) to determine how many days the child ate any other solid or semi-solid foods during the previous week. See Comparability.
The related variable MAFEDOTHER24H (V414S) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any other solid or semi-solid foods during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDOTHER24HX (V469P) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any other solid or semi-solid foods during the previous 24 hours.
