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Children age Namibia DHS VI [message #9492] Mon, 04 April 2016 07:42 Go to next message
Penipawa is currently offline  Penipawa
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Hi

I am using the DHS VI for the first time, my interest is Association between anemia and possible determinants among children aged 6-59 months in Namibia. I am using dataset KR. I am confused about following details:

1. Is hw1 the correct children age variable to use for my analysis?

2. The report indicates 2303 children where tested for anemia, but when i tab hw57 i get only about 1500 children. While hw1 give about 1900 and b4 give about 5000.

3. I would like to use malaria information for my analysis too, i find many questions regarding the use of bed nets and ant-malaria medicine, how can i use the malaria information in my analysis? do i need to merge all the questions regarding malaria?

Thank you very much for your help.
Re: Children age Namibia DHS VI [message #9508 is a reply to message #9492] Wed, 06 April 2016 20:58 Go to previous message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  Trevor-DHS
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You probably want to use the PR dataset as the data for anemia are collected in the household questionnaire. The data in the KR file are a copy of the same data but restricted to children whose mother was interviewed. The tabulations in the report are based on the data in the PR file.

You will probably need to merge some data, although you will find some of the bednet data already included in the PR file. There are many posts on the forum that talk about merging data.
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