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Demographic and Health Survey 2015 - IPUMS Subset

Afghanistan, 2015
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AFG_2015_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Central Statistics Organization (CSO) [Afghanistan], Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) [Afghanistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Fragility, Conflict and Violence
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May 01, 2020
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Duration of breastfeeding in months (including still breastfed) (C_BRSFEDMO)

Data file: AFG2015-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1322
End: 1323
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
459. Are you still breastfeeding (NAME)?

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
00 0 months
01 1
02 2
03 3
04 4
05 5
06 6
07 7
08 8
09 9
10 10
11 11
12 12
13 13
14 14
15 15
16 16
17 17
18 18
19 19
20 20
21 21
22 22
23 23
24 24
25 25
26 26
27 27
28 28
29 29
30 30
31 31
32 32
33 33
34 34
35 35
36 36
37 37
38 38
39 39
40 40
41 41
42 42
43 43
44 44
45 45
46 46
47 47
48 48
49 49
50 50
51 51
52 52
53 53
54 54
55 55
56 56
57 57
58 58
59 59
60 60+
92 Ever breastfed, not currently breastfeeding
93 Missing: Not asked (child died)
94 Never breastfed
96 Inconsistent
97 Don't know
98 Missing
99 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 before the survey, BRSFEDMO (M5) reports the calculated months of breastfeeding, including cases where 1) the child's mother was still breastfeeding at the time of the interview or 2) the child had been breastfed until his or her death. Cases in these two categories were excluded from the related variable BRSFEDUR on the duration of breastfeeding.

For DHS Phase II forward, inconsistent durations based on the original report of the duration of breastfeeding were coded as "Inconsistent." In cases where the reported duration was one month longer than the relevant interval, the duration was shortened by one month. If the duration of breastfeeding exceeded the child's age at death, the duration of breastfeeding was changed to the child's age at death.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Child's breastfeeding Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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