FEDNOTBRSMILK_ALL variables are 1-digit variables.
0 = No
1 = Yes
8 = Missing
9 = NIU (not in universe)
Description
For women who gave birth in the last three to five years, FEDNOTBRSMILK_ALL (M22_x) indicates whether her child was ever given water or anything else to eat or drink, other than breastmilk. Living children who are no longer breastfeeding are assumed to have been given food other than breastmilk.
FEDNOTBRSMILK_ALL consists of a set of six separate variables, covering the most recent birth (FEDNOTBRSMILK_01) up to the sixth-most-recent birth (i.e., FEDNOTBRSMILK_02, FEDNOTBRSMILK_03, FEDNOTBRSMILK_04, FEDNOTBRSMILK_05, and FEDNOTBRSMILK_06) during the reference period prior to the survey. If FEDNOTBRSMILK_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 FEDNOTBRSMILK_06 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
Comparability — Index
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GENERAL |
Tunisia |
Comparability
Apart from universe differences, FEDNOTBRSMILK_ALL (M22_x) has no comparability problems.
Comparability - Standard DHS
FEDNOTBRSMILK_ALL (M22_x) is included in the standard DHS questionnaire in Phase II only.
Comparability — Tunisia [top]
The 1988 Tunisian survey collected this information for the last-born child only.
Universe
- Burkina Faso 1993: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Cameroon 1991: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Egypt 1992: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Ghana 1993: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 3 years before the survey.
- India 1992: Ever-married women age 13-49 who gave birth in the 4 years before the survey.
- Jordan 1990: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Kenya 1993: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Madagascar 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Malawi 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Morocco 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Namibia 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Niger 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Nigeria 1990: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Pakistan 1991: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Rwanda 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Senegal 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Senegal 1997: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Tanzania 1991: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Tunisia 1988: Ever-married women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey and whose last-born child is still breastfeeding.
- Yemen 1991: Ever-married women age 15-54 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
- Zambia 1992: Women age 15-49 who gave birth in the 5 years before the survey.
