Demographic and Health Survey - 1993
Sri Lanka, 1993
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Reference ID
LKA-DCS-DHS-1993-v1.0
Producer(s)
Department of Census and Statistics (DCS)
Metadata
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Last modified
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- DHS93_HH
- DHS93_Person
- DHS93_Women
- DHS93_Child
Reason to Throw (Q411)
Data file: DHS93_Child
Overview
Valid:
1819
Invalid:
2105
Minimum:
1
Maximum:
9
Mean:
4.603
Standard deviation:
1.818
Type:
Continuous
Decimal:
0
Start:
146
End:
146
Width:
1
Range:
1 - 9
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milk Bad for Baby | 234 |
12.9%
|
| 2 | Milk yellow | 99 |
5.4%
|
| 3 | Baby refused | 33 |
1.8%
|
| 4 | Habit | 427 |
23.5%
|
| 5 | Other | 46 |
2.5%
|
| 6 | Advised to do so | 972 |
53.4%
|
| 9 | 9 | 8 |
0.4%
|
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.