| Nepal DHS 2022 - children's Disability [message #28665] |
Sat, 17 February 2024 10:54  |
UnseenDisability
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Registered: February 2024
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Hello all,
I am new to using DHS data and will do some data analysis for a project using STATA, which I've been learning for a few years but am no expert.
I will do a project using the DHS Nepal 2022 dataset. For my ethics application, I need to know how many children (>5, <18) in the dataset have some degree of hearing loss. I'd like to do a crosstab of the variables ha50 (under age 18) and hdis4 (difficulty hearing) and then separately ha50 and hdis3 (wear hearing aid). I have not otherwise merged any datasets or done any analysis, since I have not received the ethics approval yet. I just need to find out how many children in the dataset suffer from some degree of hearing loss, to determine whether or not I should include data from other DHS surveys (other countries). I am using the NPPR82DT dataset. All of the variables I need to use are in this dataset and none of them are empty, but when I try to crosstab them, I get the error "no observations".
Any ideas? The disability data are not commonly used, and I couldn't find anything in the other forums.
Thanks in advance
S
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| Re: Nepal DHS 2022 - children's Disability [message #28712 is a reply to message #28665] |
Wed, 28 February 2024 13:59  |
Janet-DHS
Messages: 698
Registered: April 2022
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
Here is the distribution of hdis4, the question about difficulty hearing, in that data file. About 3% of children are reported by the household respondent to have some degree of difficulty. The disability variables are under-used, as you say, and I encourage you to try to work with them. The table below gives weighted frequencies.
. tab hdis4 hv104 if hv105>5 & hv105<18 [iweight=hv005/1000000], col
+-------------------+
| Key |
|-------------------|
| frequency |
| column percentage |
+-------------------+
| sex of household
have difficulty | member
hearing | male female | Total
----------------------+----------------------+----------
no difficulty hearing | 3,281.377 3,280.552 | 6,561.929
| 97.23 97.43 | 97.33
----------------------+----------------------+----------
some difficulty | 77.762576 71.904984 | 149.66756
| 2.30 2.14 | 2.22
----------------------+----------------------+----------
a lot of difficulty | 14.765722 14.205368 | 28.97109
| 0.44 0.42 | 0.43
----------------------+----------------------+----------
cannot hear at all | 1.030425 .42826 | 1.458685
| 0.03 0.01 | 0.02
----------------------+----------------------+----------
Total | 3,374.936 3,367.091 | 6,742.027
| 100.00 100.00 | 100.00
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