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Demographic and Health Survey 1996-1997 - IPUMS Subset

Bangladesh, 1996 - 1997
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BGD_1996_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) [Bangladesh], Mitra and Associates, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Gave child colostrum (W_BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL)

Data file: BGD1997-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1929
End: 1929
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
426A. Was (NAME) given colostrum (first milk from the breast) to drink?
(MOST RECENT BIRTH WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS)

YES 1
NO 2
Categories
Value Category
1 BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL available
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
BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL indicates whether the woman gave the child colostrum, the first, thick milk from the breast.

BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BRSFEDCOLOS_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BRSFEDCOLOS_02, BRSFEDCOLOS_03, BRSFEDCOLOS_04, BRSFEDCOLOS_05, and BRSFEDCOLOS_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in BRSFEDCOLOS_ALL was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. 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 BRSFEDCOLOS_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 (BRSFEDCOLOS_01).

concept

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