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2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Sixth Edition

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ZMB-ZSA-ZDHS-2018-V1.0
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Zambia Statistics Agency
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was child put on mother's chest and bare skin after birth (m77)

Data file: ZMBR71FL

Overview

Valid: 9959
Invalid: 28487
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 8
Range: 0 - 8
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category Cases
0 no 4022
40.4%
1 put on chest, touching bare skin 5311
53.3%
2 put on chest, no touching of bare skin 362
3.6%
3 put on chest, dk/missing on touching of bare skin 16
0.2%
8 don't know 248
2.5%
Sysmiss 28487
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.
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