Demographic Health Survey 2005

Rwanda, 2005

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Reference ID

RWA-NISR-DHS-2005-v01

Producer(s)

National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda

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Demography and Health Statistics

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Duration of breastfeeding (M4)

Data file: Child

Overview

Valid: 503

Invalid: 29569

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 98

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 80

End: 81

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 98

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

For how many months did you breastfeed (NAME)?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
94	Never breastfed	37	75.5%
95	Still breastfeeding	5	10.2%
96	Breastfed until died	0	0%
97	Inconsistent	0	0%
98	DK	7	14.3%
Sysmiss		29569

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

Universe

All children

Imputation and derivation

Coder instructions

If the woman states her period has not returned since her last birth, then M6 is set to 96. Otherwise, the literal question is asked.

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