Demographic and Health Survey 2010, IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Malawi, 2010

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Reference ID

MWI_2010_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Statistical Office [Malawi] 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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Liquids given before breastmilk, first 3 days: Porridge (W_NBFEDPORR_ALL)

Data file: MWI2010-W

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 1 - 1

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
1	NBFEDPORR_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the five years before the survey, NBFEDPORR_ALL indicates whether the child was given porridge in the first three days after delivery.

NBFEDPORR_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (NBFEDPORR_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., NBFEDPORR_02, NBFEDPORR_03, NBFEDPORR_04, NBFEDPORR_05, and NBFEDPORR_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If NBFEDPORR_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. 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 NBFEDPORR_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

As detailed in the Comparability section, some surveys collected this information for the last-born children only (NBFEDPORR_01).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Breastfeeding and infant feeding Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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