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Re: Are variables comparable between years in the DHS?
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:
Most of the variables in two successive surveys in the same country are comparable. The questionnaire is given in an a appendix to the final report. You can check the wording and response categories for the questions/variables you are most interested in. You can tabulate the variable to see whether the category labels have changed. Some variables that are likely to change (not referring specifically to Colombia) are those dealing with occupation, diet, source of water, and sanitation. There can be changes in types of facilities, symptoms of illness, treatments, etc. It's good to be careful about potential changes, because when two surveys are pooled, the labels for the last survey will over-write all the others and will obscure any changes in definitions.
Survey-specific variables, which begin with "s" or "sh", can change completely.
]]>Bridgette-DHS2024-03-01T13:00:55-00:00Are variables comparable between years in the DHS?
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I am working with data from the DHS for Colombia for 2005 and 2010. I want to know how valid it is to assume that if a variable has the same name in the 2005 DHS and the 2010 DHS then it is the same variable. By being the same variable I mean that it has the same values and the values mean the same thing.
Does anyone know the answer to this?
Thanks for your help!
]]>a.ortiz2024-02-29T18:34:43-00:00Re: Trend Analysis using DHS data
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sophyadam90 wrote on Sun, 17 May 2020 15:57
Hello,
I have grouped 3 Tanzania DHS datasets from TDHS 2004/05, TDHS 2010 and TDHS 2015/16. I want to analyze the trends of unmet need for modern contraception among sexually active adolescents across the 3 survey periods and check for linearity of trends. At first I only did a cross tabulation and obtained the proportions of trends in each survey year and by different background characteristics, later computed their changes over time. But this method did not seem proper in terms of actually checking for the significance of the trends of unmet need for modern contraception (where there was a significant change).
Kindly advise how I can properly go about this using Stata.
Dear Sophy, greetings
I am doing some analysis of DHS data, and would like to check for the significance of the trends. Is it possible for you to share the do file?
regards
K ]]>kuwawenaruwa2024-01-29T05:16:44-00:00Re: Difference between Pregnancies Recode and Pregnancy & Postnatal Care Recode
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https://www.dhsprogram.com/Data/Guide-to-DHS-Statistics/inde x.cfm
In the table of contents on the left-hand side, select Introduction and Description of DHS Datasets, then Organization of DHS data, and then Recode Files. Here you will find the GR file and the NR file described.
The main difference is that the GR file includes all pregnancies, while the NR file is restricted to pregnancies in the 3 years preceding the survey.]]>Trevor-DHS2024-01-18T17:25:29-00:00Re: Query regarding the manual questionnaire for Pakistan dataset
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khan882023-12-27T16:14:21-00:00Difference between Pregnancies Recode and Pregnancy & Postnatal Care Recode
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djtippyturnitup2023-12-21T02:55:20-00:00Re: Query regarding the manual questionnaire for Pakistan dataset
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https://dhsprogram.com/Countries/Country-Main.cfm?ctry_id=31 &c=Pakistan
You can also open the codebook in a text editor (the file with .map extension).
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kiran2023-12-04T15:09:31-00:00Re: Distribution of all variables
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
Forum questions should always specify which survey and variables you are using. The standard recode files are available in SPSS, Stata, and SAS formats. Not Excel.]]>Bridgette-DHS2023-10-02T13:50:25-00:00Distribution of all variables
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The manual has been incredibly valuable for the data analysis, however it is difficult to calculate this based on the manual. Do you happen to know if there is any excel (or other format) file with this information to access?
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