Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitation 2006
Burkina Faso, 2006
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Apr 25, 2019
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No. of Meals per day (S1B4_v09)
Data file: NSS64_Sch1_bk_4
Overview
Valid:
22873
Invalid:
0
Minimum:
0
Maximum:
3
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0 | |
| 1 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 |
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.
Interviewer instructions
Column (9): number of meals usually taken in a day: The number of meals consumed by a person is usually reported as 2 or 3. For a person who takes food only once in a day, the entry will be 1. One may also come across a person who takes food more than three times a day. For such persons, however, only 3 should be entered. That is, in this column, the recorded number of meals taken in a day, even if it is reported to be higher, should not exceed 3. In addition, for infants of age "0" as well as for children who subsist on milk only, "0" may be recorded against this item.
Description
Definition
Meal: A "meal" is composed of one or more readily eatable (generally cooked) items of food, the usually major constituent of which is cereals. The meals consumed by a person twice or thrice a day provide him/ her the required energy (calorie) and other nutrients for living and for pursuing his/ her normal avocations. A "meal", as opposed to "snacks", "nashta" or "high tea", contains larger quantum and variety of food. In rare cases, a full meal may contain larger quantity of non-cereal food. Even then, if the quantum of food in a plate is heavy as a meal, the contents of the food plate will also be considered as a "meal". Sometimes the contents of a "nashta" may not be very different from the contents of a "meal". The difference in quantity will therefore be the guiding factor for deciding whether the plate is to be labelled as a "meal" or a "nashta".