Demographic and Health Survey 2014-15 - IPUMS Subset

Rwanda, 2014 - 2015

Reference ID

RWA_2014_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda, Ministry of Health [Rwanda] and ICF International., Minnesota Population Center

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Sep 19, 2018

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Mother fed youngest child yogurt in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDYOGURT24H)

Data file: RWA2014-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1615

End: 1615

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

561A) Have you ever heard of any counseling or education on nutrition?

YES 1
NO 2 (GO TO 563)

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

Description

Definition

MAFEDYOGURT24H (V414V) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child yogurt 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 yogurt 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 MAFEDYOGURT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate yogurt during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDYOGURT24H to determine whether the child ate yogurt during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDYOGURT24HX (V469X) reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child yogurt during the previous 24 hours.

concept

Concept

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

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