Demographic and Health Survey 2017-2018 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 2017 - 2018

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Reference ID

PAK_2017_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) [Pakistan], and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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May 01, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Reason stopped breastfeeding (W_WHYSTBRFD_ALL)

Data file: PAK2017-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 2790

End: 2790

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

469A) Why did you (not breastfeed) stop breastfeeding (NAME)?

CHILD HAS GROWN 1
HEALTH PROBLEM 2
CHILD CANNOT SUCKLE 3
MOTHER GO FOR WORK 4
MOTHER'S FIGURE CONCERN 5
OTHER (SPECIFY) ________ 6

Value	Category
1	WHYSTBRFD_ALL available

Description

Definition

For women who gave birth in the last three to five years and stopped breastfeeding their child, WHYSTBRFD_ALL (M21_x) reports why they stopped breastfeeding. Children who were breastfed until they died are coded 13 (Child died) as the reason for stopping breastfeeding.

WHYSTBRFD_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (WHYSTBRFD_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., WHYSTBRFD_02, WHYSTBRFD_03, WHYSTBRFD_04, WHYSTBRFD_05, and WHYSTBRFD_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If WHYSTBRFD_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then WHYSTBRFD_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some surveys, specified in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only.

concept

Concept

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

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