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Mon, 19 June 2017 08:21

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

In the IR file, variables that end with _1 through _5 refer to children born in the past five years. "_1" is for the youngest child born in the past five years, "_2" for the next youngest, etc. In the 1998 survey, the visits are for the mother AND child. Thus s417b_1 applies to the most recent birth. If there was no birth in the past five years, it will be "." for NA ("Not Applicable"). It will be 1 if postnatal care was received, 0 if not. If s417b_1 is "." or 0, then s417c_1 will be "." If there is a numerical code for s417c_1, the first digit will be 1 if digits 2-3 give hours. The first digit will be 2 if digits 2-3 give days. Note that days and hours are always "completed" days/hours. There is no "200" because that would mean "completed days=0", in which case the response is given in hours, such as "108". "201" means "one completed day", which is the same as 24-47 completed hours, or during the second day. "202" means" 2 completed days, etc.

In the 2003 survey, m50_* and m51_* are the corresponding variables. I found them with the "lookfor" command, as in "lookfor check". Note that in the 1998 survey, these were country-specific questions. By 2003, they had become core questions and the variable name starts with m rather than s.

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		Missing variables for Ghana 1993, 1998, 2003 By: tokicz on Mon, 12 June 2017 03:56
		Re: Missing variables for Ghana 1993, 1998, 2003 By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 12 June 2017 10:34
		Re: Postnatal care Ghana By: tokicz on Sat, 17 June 2017 05:30
		Re: Postnatal care Ghana By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 19 June 2017 08:21
		Re: Postnatal care Ghana By: tokicz on Thu, 22 June 2017 00:30
		Re: Postnatal care Ghana By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 22 June 2017 10:24
		Re: Missing variables for Ghana 1993, 1998, 2003 By: kpat on Mon, 29 January 2018 11:10
		Re: Missing variables for Ghana 1993, 1998, 2003 By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 29 January 2018 20:40

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