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Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018
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Reference ID
PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M
Producer(s)
National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS)
Collection(s)
MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys
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When child put to breast (m34)

Data file: REC41

Overview

Valid: 7919
Invalid: 4789
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 94
End: 96
Width: 3
Range: 0 - 999
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext
Last born children who were ever breastfed (MIDX = 1 & M4 <> 94).
Categories
Value Category
0 Immediately
100 Within first hour
101 Hours: 1
199 Hours: number missing
201 Days: 1
299 Days: number missing
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.

Others

Notes
Time after the birth at which the respondent first breastfed the child. The first digit gives the units in which the respondent gave her answer. Code 0 means the child was breastfed immediately after birth, code 1 indicates the response was in hours, code 2 in days, with code 9 meaning a special answer was given. The last two digits give the time in the units given. Any value for time greater than 90 is a special answer. The response "Immediately" is recorded as 000.
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