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Demographic and Health Survey 1996 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1996
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Reference ID
TZA_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Bureau of Statistics, Planning Commission [Tanzania] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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Times mother breastfed child during previous night (W_BRSFEDNITE_ALL)

Data file: TZA1996-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2081
End: 2081
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
432. How many times did you breastfeed last night between sunset and sunrise?
IF ANSWER IS NOT NUMERIC, PROBE FOR APPROXIMATE NUMBER.

NUMBER OF NIGHTTIME FEEDINGS ______
Categories
Value Category
1 BRSFEDNITE_ALL available
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
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years and whose child is still breastfeeding, BRSFEDNITE_ALL (M35_x) reports how many times the mother breastfed the child the previous night between sunset and sunrise.

BRSFEDNITE_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BRSFEDNITE_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BRSFEDNITE_02, BRSFEDNITE_03, BRSFEDNITE_04, BRSFEDNITE_05, and BRSFEDNITE_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BRSFEDNITE_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in BRSFEDNITE_ALL was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then BRSFEDNITE_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Many surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only (BRSFEDNITE_01).

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Breastfeeding and infant feeding Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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