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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

1970 British Cohort Study: Birth and 22-Month Subsample, 1970-1972

Variable Details

Variablea0303
LabelFeeding of Baby - Day4
Responses
-4 Stillbirth/Abort/Died 0
-3 Not Stated 221
-2 Not Known 4
-1 NA:Not Alive 407
0 None 4
1 Cows & Breast Milk 8
2 Other Dried Milk 33
3 Cows Milk 8
4 Extra Feeds 2
5 Condensed Milk 3
6 Breast Milk & Farex 3
7 Farex & FC Dried 0
8 Frailac & FC Dried 1
9 Frailac & HC Dried 1
10 Breast Milk Only 4125
11 Water Only 3
12 FC & Breast Milk 353
13 HC & Breast Milk 683
14 Humanised & Breast 75
15 Evaporated & Breast 186
16 Breast Milk & SMA 48
17 Breast & IV Fluid 0
20 Full Cream Dried 3658
21 BM & Other Dried 1
22 Sugar Soln Hartman 22
23 FC & HC Dried Milk 110
24 FC & Humanised 3
25 FC & Evaporated 35
26 FC & SMA 0
27 FC & IV Fluid 2
28 FC & Gastric Drip 0
30 Half Cream Only 5294
32 Breast & FC & HC 2
34 HC & Humanised 3
35 HC & Evaporated 3
36 HC & SMA 2
37 HC & IV Fluid 5
40 Humanised Only 411
42 FC & Extra Feed 1
45 Humanised Evaporated 0
46 Humanised & SMA 0
50 Evaporated Only 1054
54 Evap Milk & Cereal 0
56 Evaporated & SMA 2
57 Evaporated & IV 4
60 SMA Only 401
70 IV Fluid Only 13
80 Gastric Drip Only 2
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
Location1970 British Cohort Study: Birth and 22-Month Subsample, 1970-1972
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Children born in one particular week in 1970. The Birth sample covered the United Kingdom while the 22-month Sub-sample covered Great Britain only.
SamplingNo sampling (total universe); One-stage stratified or systematic random sample;The Birth sample (A) included all babies born (alive or dead) after the 24th week of gestation, in one particular week in 1970 in the United Kingdom.<br>The 22-month sub-sample (B) is a 10% sample of the live births in (A) plus all multiple births, all singleton children born at later than 42 weeks gestation, and all singleton children who were on or below the 5th centile of birthweight for their length of gestation.
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort
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