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Calculate wealth index for Bangladesh DHS 1999-00 [message #11976]

Tue, 14 March 2017 17:26

bakerchowdhury
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Registered: April 2014

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Hi,
I was trying to calculate wealth index for the BDHS 1999-00 (for women data) in SPSS using the syntax provided at http://dhsprogram.com/topics/wealth-index/Wealth-Index-Const ruction.cfm.
I used exactly the same code from the pdf file and but I am getting the following errors.

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For the data I used BDIR41FL. I also attached the syntax file I used.

Thanks for your help.
Baker

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Re: Calculate wealth index for Bangladesh DHS 1999-00 [message #12022 is a reply to message #11976]

Mon, 20 March 2017 17:28

bakerchowdhury
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Registered: April 2014

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It seems that the code provided on the DHS website requires a dataset named BDASSETS.DAT. However, I was not able to download any data file named like that.
Any help in figuring out the difficulty would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Baker

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Re: Calculate wealth index for Bangladesh DHS 1999-00 [message #12032 is a reply to message #12022]

Tue, 21 March 2017 10:43

Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013

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The BDASSETS dataset was an extracted dataset based on the Bangladesh HR file. We do not have a copy of this file, but you could reconstruct it using the HR file, and recoding the water source, toilet facilities, wall, floor and other similar variables into dichotomous variables for each category. Note that not all variables in that data file are needed for the wealth index.

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