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Estimate of C-section deliveries [message #15413] Sat, 14 July 2018 08:33 Go to next message
abhishek is currently offline  abhishek
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Hello all,
This is Abhishek Kumar from India. I am working with Population Council, India Office.

I am trying to estimate prevalence of C-section birth for India using NFHS-4 kids file. I am using V401 and applying national weight. I am getting an estimate of 17.6% (N=249,966.97) where as in the NFHS-4 report it is 17.2% (N=249,949). Could any of you clarify this mismatch.

With Kind Regards
Abhishek
Re: Estimate of C-section deliveries [message #15985 is a reply to message #15413] Mon, 15 October 2018 18:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS Chief of Data Processing, Guillermo Rojas:

Variable V401 is just for caesarean section for the last birth. To properly produce the indicator, variable M17 (caesarean for each child born in the last 5 years) should be used.

Re: Estimate of C-section deliveries [message #24493 is a reply to message #15985] Tue, 24 May 2022 01:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anuj is currently offline  Anuj
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How to calculate cesarean section deliveries in the last 5 years. I wanted to generate a new variable out of the m17_1 -----m17_6 variables (IR file for India) but was not able to get the results.

Requesting any response for the same.
Re: Estimate of C-section deliveries [message #24516 is a reply to message #24493] Wed, 25 May 2022 11:55 Go to previous message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
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Following is response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

Please be specific about what number in what table you are trying to match.
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