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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 1999
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TZA_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child soda or other sugary beverage in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDSODA24H)

Data file: TZA1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 919
End: 919
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
448. Now I would like to ask you about the types of foods and liquids (NAME) was given yesterday. At any time yesterday or last night, was (NAME) given any of the following:

Plain Water?
Tinned, powered, or fresh milk or infant formula?
Tea, fruit juice, soda, sugar water?
Oral rehydration solution?
Any other liquids?
Vitamin, mineral supplements or medicine?
Any solid or semi-solid (mushy) food?

PLAIN WATER

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

MILK, FORMULA

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

TEA, JUICE, SODA

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

ORS

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

OTHER LIQUIDS

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

VITAMINS, MEDICINE

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8

SOLID OR MUSHY FOOD

YES 1
NO 2
DON'T KNOW 8
Categories
Value Category
0 No
1 Yes
7 Don't know
8 Missing
9 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
MAFEDSODA24H indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child soda or other sugary beverages 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 soda or other sugary beverages 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 MAFEDSODA24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother drank soda or other sugary beverages during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDSODA24H to determine whether the child drank soda or other sugary beverages during the previous day. See Comparability.

The related variable MAFEDSODA24HX reports the number of times the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child soda or other sugary beverages during the previous 24 hours. MAFEDSODAWKD reports the number of days the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child soda or other sugary beverages during the past week.

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