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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Benin, 2006
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BEN_2006_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Économique (INSAE) in collaboration with the Programme National de Lutte contre le Sida (PNLS) [Bénin] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: BEN2006-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1672
End: 1673
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
477B) When (NAME) had diarrhea, was he/she given less breast milk than usual, about the same amount, or more than usual?
IF LESS, PROBE: Was he/she given much less breast milk than usual, or somewhat less?

MUCH LESS 1
SOMEWHAT LESS 2
ABOUT THE SAME 3
MORE 4
NOTHING TO DRINK 5
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
10 Unchanged
20 Increased
30 Reduced
31 Somewhat less
32 Much less
40 Stopped completely
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 surviving children under age 5 who had diarrhea and were still breastfed in the past 2 weeks, DIABFEDAMT (H18A) indicates whether the child was breastfed more, less, or the same amount as usual during the illness. Question wording and response categories vary across samples; see Comparability.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Diarrhea, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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