| Re: Convert DHS (SPSS?) missing value codes to Stata codes in Stata dataset [message #12193 is a reply to message #12187] |
Thu, 06 April 2017 21:01   |
phres110
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Registered: October 2014
Location: korea
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Dear Expert
Thank you very much for your suggestion.It is written in DHS guide:
"Other special responses and codes are: "inconsistent," "don't know," and "blank" (or "not applicable.") "Missing," "inconsistent," "don't know," and "blank" codes are excluded when calculating statistics such as means or medians; otherwise they are treated as real values. - See more at: http://www.dhsprogram.com/data/Data-Quality-and-Use.cfm#stha sh.4VQufOxh.dpuf"
i read in some papers that you may delete the cases if you are sure they are not specific for any reason. Although it may reduce your sample size but if there are not a high number of missing values its Ok. and some papers suggest not to delete the cases do imputation .......i am confused how to deal with missing values in my analysis. I am using SAS. Kindly guide me what to do in SAS that without deletion i can do my analysis correctly.
Many thanks and Regards.
dhs110
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