Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2010

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Reference ID

TZA_2010_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Aug 15, 2018

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May 14, 2020

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Mother fed youngest child sweets (candy, pastry) in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSWEETS24H)

Data file: TZA2010-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1554

End: 1554

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDSWEETS24H (V414R) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any sugary foods such as chocolates, sweets, candies, pastries, cakes or biscuits 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 sugary foods 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 MAFEDSWEETS24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate sugary foods during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDSWEETS24H, if available, to determine whether the child ate sugary food during the previous day. See Comparability.

concept

Concept

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

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