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stillbirth [message #10586]

Sun, 14 August 2016 19:36

abaodoi@gmail.com
Messages: 2
Registered: August 2016
Location: Ghana

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Hi everyone,
This is my first time suing the DHS data set. I want to calculate the total number of stillbirth from the 2014 -Ghana DHS .

However the data set contains a list of variables (eg. br6_0 upto br620) , how do I go about doing the calculation. I am using the women's file.

Any help and suggestions will be much appreciated. Thank you

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Re: stillbirth [message #10670 is a reply to message #10586]

Mon, 29 August 2016 12:14

Trevor-DHS
Messages: 805
Registered: January 2013

Senior Member

In the Ghana DHS 2014 survey information on stillbirths was only collected as part of the reproductive calendar for the 5-6 years preceding the survey. You cannot calculate the total number of stillbirths from the data, only the number of stillbirths in the 5 years preceding the survey. There are examples elsewhere on the forum - I suggest starting by looking at the code here, and the correspondence in this thread, and searching the forum for other similar posts.

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Re: stillbirth [message #10834 is a reply to message #10670]

Thu, 22 September 2016 18:37

abaodoi@gmail.com
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Registered: August 2016
Location: Ghana

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Trevor
Thanks very much. will look at the code you provided.

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