Demographic and Health Survey 1988 - IPUMS Subset

Tunisia, 1988

Reference ID

TUN_1988_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Office National de la Famille et de la Population et Institute for Resource Development/Macro Systems, Inc., 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 herbal tea in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDTEA24H)

Data file: TUN1988-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 743

End: 743

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

518) At any time yesterday during the daylight hours or last night, was (NAME OF LAST CHILD) given anything to drink or eat, such as:
Water?
Juice?
Tea?
Herbal tea?
Powdered milk?
Cow milk?
Goat milk?
Condensed milk?
Gruel?
Yogurt?
Flour?
Biscuit?
Something else?

WATER

YES 1
NO 2

JUICE

YES 1
NO 2

TEA/HERBAL TEA

YES 1
NO 2

POWDERED MILK

YES 1
NO 2

COW MILK

YES 1
NO 2

GOAT MILK

YES 1
NO 2

CONCENTRATED MILK

YES 1
NO 2

GRUEL

YES 1
NO 2

YOGURT

YES 1
NO 2

FLOUR/BISCUIT

YES 1
NO 2

OTHER (SPECIFY)

YES 1
NO 2

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDTEA24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child herbal tea 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 herbal tea 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 MAFEDTEA24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank herbal tea during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDTEA24H (M37D) to determine whether the child drank herbal tea during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDTEA24HX (V469D) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child herbal tea during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDTEAWKD (V470D) reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child herbal tea during the past week.

concept

Concept

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

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