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Fri, 10 January 2025 17:52

Varsha
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Registered: November 2020

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Hello,

I have three small doubts.

(1) The questions on breastfeeding in the NFHS questionnaires pertain to the last birth. This last birth doesn't correspond to the one born in the 2 years before the survey, right? I'm confused because the calculations related to breastfeeding in the reports restrict the age of the last birth to the 2 years before the survey?

(2) I want to create a variable on the duration (months) of breastfeeding. For the 'never breastfed' category, how should I assign the value? Can I club it with the '0' category?

(3) Here: https://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG1/Guide_to_DHS_Stati stics_DHS-8.pdf on page 11.28, why don't we exclude 0 as a response from ever breastfed (it excludes 94 and 99 (is it don't know?))?

Thanks

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		Breastfeeding status By: Varsha on Fri, 10 January 2025 17:52
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Varsha on Sat, 11 January 2025 16:31
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Varsha on Tue, 14 January 2025 07:48
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 14 January 2025 14:22
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Varsha on Sat, 18 January 2025 10:25
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Varsha on Sat, 18 January 2025 16:48
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 21 January 2025 14:15
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 14 January 2025 14:29
		Re: Breastfeeding status By: Varsha on Tue, 14 January 2025 14:39

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