Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2008

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Reference ID

EGY_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health [Egypt], E-Zanaty and Associates, and Macro International., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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Mother fed youngest child other liquid in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDOTHLIQ24H)

Data file: EGY2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1276

End: 1276

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

703. First I would like to ask you about liquids/foods (NAME FROM 701) had yesterday during the day or at night. Did (NAME FROM 701) had:

a. Plain water?
b. Infant formula, that is, a special commercially produced breastmilk substitutes such as Similac, Bebelack and Biomeal?
c. Any commercially fortified baby cereal (like Cerelac, or Riri or Gerber)?
d. Other porridge or gruel made from wheat, rice or other grains?

a PLAIN WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

b INFANT FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

c COMMERCIAL BABY CEREALS

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

d OTHER PORRIDGE GRUEL

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDOTHLIQ24H (V413) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child other liquids during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable describes a characteristic of the mother rather than the child. The meaning of "other" must be interpreted relative to the specific categories included in a particular sample.

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 other liquids in the previous day, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDOTHLIQ24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank other liquids during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDOTHLIQ24H (M37L) to determine whether the child drank other liquids during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDOTHLIQ24HX (V469L) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child other liquids during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDOTHLIQWKD (V470L) reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child other liquids during the past week.

concept

Concept

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

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