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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Aug 23, 2018

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Flag for breastfeeding, problem with duration (C_BRSFDFLAG)

Data file: MWI2010-C

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	No flag
1	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview
2	Greater than interval between birth and date of interview by only 1 month
3	Greater than interval between birth and age at death
4	During pregnancy in calendar
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

For children born in the three to five years preceding the survey, BRSFDFLAG (M27) is a flag variable that indicates the type of problem, if any, found in editing responses on their duration of breastfeeding. Cases without a problem are coded 0.

For duration of breastfeeding, see BRSFEDUR (M4).

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Child's breastfeeding Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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