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Re: ages at first marriage and first birth [message #638 is a reply to message #630] Thu, 18 July 2013 17:42 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  Trevor-DHS
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After further review and checking of the original programs, I discovered that in the 1992-93 survey v511 actually contains the age the woman started living with her current husband, and not the first husband. The information on the age of the woman when she started living with her first husband is in s113. Thus, I would adjust the instructions given for calculating v509 as follows:

generate age1stm = v511
replace age1stm = s113 if s113 < 96

replace v509 = v011 + 12 * age1st + int(12*runiform()) if age1stm < 97

Note the added condition to exclude a small number of cases where the age started living together was not available.

We will be making a correction to the dataset to correct v511 and will release the corrected dataset in the near future.
 
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