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Pregnancy Outcome - Cameroon [message #16633] Thu, 07 February 2019 19:27 Go to next message
Hermnan is currently offline  Hermnan
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Can someone please explain to me how Table 5.6 of the Cameroon 2011 DHS report was done? I found this response https://userforum.dhsprogram.com/index.php?t=tree&goto=1 5879&&srch=terminated+pregnancy#msg_15879 which uses vcal_7 but the Cameroon dataset does not have that variable.
Re: Pregnancy Outcome - Cameroon [message #16693 is a reply to message #16633] Tue, 19 February 2019 11:03 Go to previous message
Courtney-DHS is currently offline  Courtney-DHS
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The post to which you have referred to is about a different indicator than what is in Table 5.6 in Cameroon's 2011 Final Report.

After searching through the dataset for variables that refer to abortion, miscarriage, or stillbirth, there are only a few:
s229a "Number of pregnancies misscarried or aborted"
s229ba "Number of pregnancies aborted"
s229bb "Number of pregnancies misscarried"
s229bc "Number of pregnancies ended with stillbirth"

You will need these variables to match Table 5.6. Additionally, if you read the table description beneath the table title you will find clues for what to include in your denominator. Table 5.6 in Cameroon's 2011 Final Report only refer to women who have ever had sex, therefore you will need variable v525.

Here is some Stata code that matched Table 5.6:

gen abort = 0 if v525>0
replace abort = 1 if s229ba>0 & s229a!=. & v525>0
tab abort [iw=v005/1000000]

gen miscarry = 0 if v525>0
replace miscarry = 1 if s229bb>0 & s229a!=. & v525>0
tab miscarry [iw=v005/1000000]

gen stillbirth = 0 if v525>0
replace stillbirth = 1 if s229bc>0 & s229bc<. & v525>0
tab stillbirth [iw=v005/1000000]
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