Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016

Reference ID

ZAF_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Department of Health (NDoH) [South Africa], Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and ICF., 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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Mother fed youngest child salty snacks in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSALT24H)

Data file: ZAF2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1676

End: 1676

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
0	No
1	Yes
7	Don't know
8	Missing
9	NIU (not in universe)

Description

Definition

MAFEDSALT24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child salty snacks 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 salty snacks in the previous day, all of her young children in the data are coded as "yes," including any children who have died or who live elsewhere.

A positive response in MAFEDSALT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate salty snacks during the previous day.

concept

Concept

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

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