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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 1998
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Reference ID
GHA_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Child fed baby formula in past 24 hours (C_FEDFORM24H)

Data file: GHA1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1119
End: 1119
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
434. At any time yesterday or last night, was (NAME) given any of the following?

Plain water?
Sugar water?
Juice?
Baby formula?
Tinned/powdered/fresh milk?

Any other liquid?
Any solid or mushy food made from maize, rice, yam, weanimix, mpotompoto, or other grain/tuber?
Eggs, fish or poultry?
Meat?
Any other solid or semi-solid foods?

PLAIN WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

SUGAR WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

JUICE

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

BABY FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

TINNED/POWDERED FRESH MILK

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

FOOD MADE FROM GRAIN/TUBER

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

EGGS/FISH/POULTRY

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

MEAT

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8

OTHER SOLID/SEMI-SOLID FOODS

YES 1
NO 2
DK 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
FEDFORM24H (M37F) indicates whether the child drank infant formula during the previous day, either at night or during the daytime. This variable is a characteristic of the child.

The related variable MAFEDFORM24H (V411A) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child infant formula during the previous day.

The related variable FEDFORM24HX reports the number of times the child drank infant formula in the previous 24 hours. FEDFORMWKD (M40F) reports the number of days the child drank infant formula during the past week.

concept

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