BRSFEDSCHED_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.

1 = On demand
2 = Fixed schedule
3 = Both
8 = Missing
9 = NIU (not in universe)

Description

BRSFEDSCHED_ALL indicates whether the woman breastfeeds her child on demand or on a schedule.

BRSFEDSCHED_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (BRSFEDSCHED_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., BRSFEDSCHED_02, BRSFEDSCHED_03, BRSFEDSCHED_04, BRSFEDSCHED_05, and BRSFEDSCHED_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If BRSFEDSCHED_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.

For surveys including this question, information for this variable was collected on all births, up to a maximum of six, in the reference period. 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 BRSFEDSCHED_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.

Some surveys, noted in the Comparability section, collected this information for the last-born child only.

Comparability — Index

Comparability

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

Comparability - Standard DHS

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

Universe