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Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding [message #13219 is a reply to message #13163]

Fri, 06 October 2017 03:54

Nasiha Sarwar
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Registered: August 2017
Location: Lahore

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Thank you for this platform to resolve our confusions.

I'm working on factors affecting breastfeeding duration in Pakistan. I want to apply Cox regression model. For this purpose I need Status variable (including censored, uncensored observations) but I found in PDHS 2012-13 PKKR file that months of breastfeeding are only given for women who are still breastfeeding. So, these observations are right censored but to run Cox regression model I also need exact survival time (exact months of breastfeeding) but in data file women who are not currently breastfeeding their status (yes, no) is given rather than months. How can I obtain/compute exact breastfeeding duration for those who have stopped breast feeding. In literature it is found that some authors have taken age at weaning for this purpose. I can't find this variable in the data set. So, kindly share with me that how this variable can be computed.
Thank you.

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		Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Nasiha Sarwar on Wed, 23 August 2017 13:32
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Liz-DHS on Fri, 01 September 2017 17:38
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Nasiha Sarwar on Sun, 10 September 2017 16:48
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Liz-DHS on Mon, 11 September 2017 11:02
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Nasiha Sarwar on Mon, 18 September 2017 13:51
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Nasiha Sarwar on Wed, 20 September 2017 11:05
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Liz-DHS on Sat, 30 September 2017 23:36
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Nasiha Sarwar on Fri, 06 October 2017 03:54
		Re: Factors affecting the duration of breastfeeding By: Hassen on Thu, 24 May 2018 05:18

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