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Demographic and Health Survey 2010 - IPUMS Subset

Tanzania, 2010
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TZA_2010_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Bureau of Statistics [Tanzania] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Mother fed youngest child meat in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDMEAT24H)

Data file: TZA2010-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1551
End: 1551
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

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
MAFEDMEAT24H (V414H) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child any meat, such as beef, pork, lamb, goat, chicken, or duck, 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 meat 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 MAFEDMEAT24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate meat during the previous day. IPUMS-DHS users should instead employ the variable FEDMEAT24H (M37T) to determine whether the child ate meat during the previous day. See Comparability.

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