Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992

Reference ID

NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Reason stopped breastfeeding (fifth to last child) (W_WHYSTBRFD_05)

Data file: NAM1992-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1778

End: 1779

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

434) Why did you stop breastfeeding (NAME)?

MOTHER ILL/WEAK 01
CHILD ILL/WEAK 02
CHILD DIED 03
NIPPLE/BREAST PROBLEM 04
INSUFFICIENT MILK 05
MOTHER WORKING 06
CHILD REFUSED 07
WEANING AGE 08
BECAME PREGNANT 09
STARTED USING CONTRACEPTION 10
OTHER (SPECIFY)_____11

Categories

Value	Category
95	Other
72	Mother's figure concern
71	Husband disapproved
70	Other reason
64	Wanted another child
63	Wanted to start method
62	Started using method
61	Became pregnant
60	Reproductive/family planning reason
50	Weaning age
43	Child preferred bottle
42	Child refused food
41	Child refused
40	Child's attitude
33	Inconvenient
32	Mother at school
31	Mother working
30	Mother busy
22	Insufficient milk
21	Nipple, breast problem
10	Health problem
11	Mother ill or weak
12	Child ill or weak
13	Child died
14	Child had diarrhea
15	Improve child health
20	Breastmilk problem
96	Inconsistent
97	Don't know if ever breastfed
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.

concept

Concept

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

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