South Africa Demographic and Health Survey 2016
South Africa

South Africa, 2016

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zaf-doh-statssa-dhs-2016-v1

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https://doi.org/10.25828/6nyy-xw50

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National Department of Health, Medical Research Council, Statistics South Africa

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was child put on mother's chest and bare skin after birth (m77_1)

Data file: dhs-sa-2016-indiv-v1

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Value	Category
	no
1	put on chest, touching bare skin
2	put on chest, no touching of bare skin
3	put on chest, dk/missing on touching of bare skin
8	don't know

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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