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Demographic and Health Survey 2004-05 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2004 - 2005
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TZA_2004_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Number of meals per day for HH, normally (W_MEALSPERDAY)

Data file: TZA2004-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 446
End: 446
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
28E. How many meals does your household usually have per day?

MEALS _______
Categories
Value Category
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5+
6 Non-resident
8 Missing
0 0
7 Don't know
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
MEALSPERDAY reports the number of meals per day the members of the household have, either "usually" or during a recent reference period.

The information in MEALSPERDAY is taken from the household record, linked to the record of the woman respondent. This information applies to household residents, not temporary visitors, so researchers may wish to exclude visitors using the RESIDENT variable (with visitors coded "2").

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Food insufficiency Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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