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Re: India NFHS-3 - slum coding [message #11875 is a reply to message #11870]

Thu, 23 February 2017 04:14

soniwe
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Registered: October 2016
Location: Auckland

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Hi again,

I have realised why I was having those counter-intuitive results. I had recoded the missing values and included them as "non-slum". The majority of these were from rural populations, which have much lower coverage of health interventions even than urban slums, and this was skewing the results. I now want to recode into three categories: "Urban non-slum" "Urban slum" "Rural". Is it ok to re-code the missing as "Urban non-slum" if v025 is 1 (urban) and as "Rural" if v025 is 2 (rural) (see code below)? Are those participants categorised as "non slum" in the variable sslumc equivalent to other urban dwellers categorised as 1 in v025 - i.e. does it make sense to combine these two groups?

Sonia

recode sslumc (.=2) if v025==1
recode sslumc (.=3) if v025==2
label define slum 1 "Urban slum" 2 "Urban non slum" 3 "Rural"

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		India NFHS-3 - slum coding By: soniwe on Wed, 22 February 2017 10:24
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