AGESOLIDAILY_ALL variables are 2-digit variables.

See AGESOLIDAILY_01 for the relevant codes.

Description

AGESOLIDAILY_ALL reports the age, in months, at which the woman's child started eating solid or mushy foods daily.

AGESOLIDAILY_ALL consists of a set of up to six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (AGESOLIDAILY_01) up to, potentially, the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., AGESOLIDAILY_02, AGESOLIDAILY_03, AGESOLIDAILY_04, AGESOLIDAILY_05, and AGESOLIDAILY_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If AGESOLIDAILY_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

The information in AGESOLIDAILY_ALL was collected for all births within the reference period preceding the survey. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to six births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 4 or more births in 3 years, or had 5 or 6 births in 5 years). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 6 births in five years and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then AGESOLIDAILY_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

The related variable, AGESOLID_ALL (M26_x), reports the age, in months, at which the woman's child started eating solid or mushy foods regularly.

Comparability

Apart from universe differences and slight differences in question wording, AGESOLIDAILY_ALL has no comparability problems.

Comparability - Standard DHS

AGESOLIDAILY_ALL is a country-specific variable, and it is not included in any phase of the standard DHS questionnaire.

Universe