Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Guinea, 1999

Reference ID

GIN_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Direction Nationale de la Statistique, Ministère du Plan et de la Coopération [Guinea] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

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Sep 19, 2018

Last modified

Sep 19, 2018

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Specific change in breastfeeding when child had diarrhea (C_DIABFEDAMT)

Data file: GIN1999-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 1303

End: 1304

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

458B. Was (NAME) breastfed in the same way before the diarrhea, or more or less?
[DO NOT ASK FOR THIRD-TO-LAST BIRTH/LATER BIRTHS]

SAME 1
MORE 2
LESS 3

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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