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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 2008
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NGA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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Mother fed youngest child commerciall fortified baby food/cereal in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDCEREAL24H)

Data file: NGA2008-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1723
End: 1723
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
575. Now I would like to ask you about liquids or foods (NAME FROM 574) had yesterday during the day or at night.
Did (NAME FROM 574) (drink/eat):

Plain water?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Commercially produced infant formula?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Any commercially-fortified baby food like Cerelac?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

Any (other) porridge or gruel?

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
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
MAFEDCEREAL24H (V412A) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any commercially fortified baby food, such as Cerelac, 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 any commercially fortified baby food 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 MAFEDCEREAL24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate any commercially fortified baby food during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDCEREAL24H to determine whether the child ate any commercially fortified baby food during the previous day. See Comparability.

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