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Re: 2013 Namibia DHS data: Numbers not matching [message #13695 is a reply to message #13564]

Fri, 08 December 2017 11:10

Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013

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The HW series of variables are for children measured for height and weight. In this survey height and weight was measured only for a subsample of children, and thus the age in this series of variables is provided only for this subsample.

The recommended method of calculating age in months for children is to calculate it using v008 and b3 as follows:

age = v008 - b3

See the note about calculating age of children on our website, which also describes recent changes we have made in the calculation of age in the most recent surveys.

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		Re: 2013 Namibia DHS data: Numbers not matching By: Trevor-DHS on Fri, 08 December 2017 11:10
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