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Justification of Domestic Violence (V744A-E v/s S936F-G) [message #15146] Fri, 08 June 2018 00:52 Go to next message
Aneree Parekh is currently offline  Aneree Parekh
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Hello, I am working with the NFHS 4 data (IAIR73SV). While looking at the variables pertaining to justification of domestic violence in the women's Individual Recode I came across two sets of variables that seem to be relating to this topic - V744A-E and S936F-G.

Would someone be able to tell me what the difference is between these two sets? Thank you.


Best Wishes,
Aneree
Re: Justification of Domestic Violence (V744A-E v/s S936F-G) [message #15211 is a reply to message #15146] Mon, 18 June 2018 05:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior Data Processing Specialist, Mianmian Yu:

Thanks for the question. V744A-E and S936F-G together are a complete set of variables reflecting Question 936A-G from the survey's women questionnaire. Hope this helps.

Re: Justification of Domestic Violence (V744A-E v/s S936F-G) [message #15366 is a reply to message #15211] Fri, 06 July 2018 15:38 Go to previous message
boyle014 is currently offline  boyle014
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Dear Aneree and others,

A quick note that this type of confusion is one reason we've created IPUMS DHS as an alternative to the original DHS files.

In IPUMS DHS, you can find all the domestic violence variables grouped together under the TOPICS drop-down menu. Furthermore, if you click on any variable name, you'll see the specific survey question used to generate that variable. Just click on the SURVEY TEXT tab. From there, if you click on "text" next to "View entire document," the system will take you into the survey precisely where the question was asked. This helps to see if there are other related questions and also to get a sense of skip patterns.

IPUMS DHS has a lot of DHS samples now, so I recommend starting by selecting the samples that interest you. That makes browsing the variables easier.

Liz Boyle


Professor Elizabeth Boyle
Sociology & Law, University of Minnesota, USA
Principal Investigator, IPUMS-DHS
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