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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Mother fed youngest child eggs in past 24 hours (C_MAFEDEGG24H)

Data file: LSO2009-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 1496
End: 1496
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
578U Did (NAME) eat eggs?

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
MAFEDEGG24H (V414G) indicates whether the child's mother gave her youngest surviving child eggs 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 eggs 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 MAFEDEGG24H thus does not necessarily indicate whether a particular child of the mother ate eggs during the previous day. See Comparability.

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