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Re: duration of breastfeeding vs. months of breastfeeding [message #10025 is a reply to message #9647]

Thu, 16 June 2016 16:02

Trevor-DHS
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Historically respondent's were asked how long they breastfed their children. The duration of breastfeeding reported is stored in M4, with those reporting that they are still breastfeeding recorded as code 95. M5 contains the same data, except for those who were still breastfeeding where the 95 is replaced by the number of months breastfed so far (v008 [date of interview] - b3 [date of birth of child]).

In more recent rounds of DHS the question on duration of breastfeeding has been dropped from the questionnaire as the data are not reliable and contain considerable heaping. In these later surveys those cases that would be recorded with a duration of breastfeeding in m4 in the past re recorded as code 93 (not currently breastfeeding, but ever breasted). Those still breastfeeding are coded 94 as before. In m5, the 94 is concerted into a duration of breastfeeding so far, but the code 93 are left.

DHS no longer reports breastfeeding duration based on reported durations of breastfeeding, but rather uses a current status median estimate based on whether breastfeeding by age of child. See the Guide to DHS Statistics page 17 and the section on Current Status data for more information.

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