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identifying districts [message #1267]

Wed, 29 January 2014 15:22

shivelyg
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Registered: January 2014
Location: Purdue University

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I am having difficulty identifying the district, county and sub-county for observations in the 2011 Uganda DHS dataset. For the 2006 DHS these variables were named shdist, shcounty and shscty. These variables do not appear on the 2011 UGHR60FL.DTA dataset. Does anyone know how to identify this information?

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Re: identifying districts [message #1268 is a reply to message #1267]

Wed, 29 January 2014 17:22

user-rhs
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Registered: December 2013

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The files called UGHR60FL.FRQ, UGHR60FL.FRW, and UGHR60FL.MAP give descriptions/tabulations of all variables in the UGHR60FL dataset. You can open these in Notepad/textedit, and do a search (CTRL F) for district, county, etc. If the vbl is in the released dataset, you should be able to see what the name is in the dataset. Check also the Individual Recode file if you can't find it in the HH recode dataset. Remember that Stata is case-sensitive

HTH,

rhs

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Re: identifying districts [message #11681 is a reply to message #1268]

Fri, 27 January 2017 06:34

Penny
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Registered: November 2015
Location: Uganda

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Dear all,

This is to inquire if I can get the 2007 SPA data for Uganda with the district variable. The UGSR5S file shows that district variable was deleted, is it possible to get the data with district variable.

Thank you

Peninah

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Re: identifying districts [message #11732 is a reply to message #11681]

Fri, 03 February 2017 18:58

Liz-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Dear User,
A response from data processing expert, Claudia Marchena:
Quote:

In surveys before 2009 the consent for SPA surveys did not allow to share locations for facilities nor facility names. Providing this piece of information will potentially identify facilities since, for instance, there are few hospitals and if district location would have been provided, it could identify the hospital. This would violate the confidentiality terms set for SPA surveys before 2009.

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Re: identifying districts [message #11838 is a reply to message #11732]

Thu, 16 February 2017 10:15

Penny
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Registered: November 2015
Location: Uganda

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Hi Liz,

Thanks to Claudia for the response.

Now my question is on linking 2007 Uganda SPA data.
My unit of analysis is health facility so I have merged ANC data to Provider using facilty number and ProviderID. I have then tried to merge the new data file to facility data using facility number.
However, I get an error message "Duplicate key in a file. The BY variables do not uniquely identify each case on the indicated file. Please check the results carefully". I would like to know if there is something I did not do well and what that message means. Any other information on how I can merge the 3 datasets is welcome. I am using SPSS.

Thanks and Kind regards

Peninah

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Re: identifying districts [message #12028 is a reply to message #11732]

Tue, 21 March 2017 05:31

CeciliaLH
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Registered: March 2017

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Dear Liz,

Will it be possible to know what districts are defined in the seven regions of the 2007 Uganda SPA data?
I am trying to merge the SPA data with non-DHS data, which is only identified on district level, hence I need to know what districts are within each region to match the identifying variables. Will that be within the confidentiality terms?

Thank you
Cecilia

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Re: identifying districts [message #12139 is a reply to message #12028]

Fri, 31 March 2017 15:07

Liz-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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A response from data processing expert, Claudia Marchena:
Quote:

In surveys before 2009 the consent for SPA surveys did not allow to share locations for facilities nor facility names. Providing this piece of information will potentially identify facilities since, for instance, there are few hospitals and if district location would have been provided, it could identify the hospital. This would violate the confidentiality terms set for SPA surveys before 2009.

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Re: identifying districts [message #13713 is a reply to message #1267]

Mon, 11 December 2017 23:04

mwoldetsadik
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Registered: December 2017

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Were you able to identify the district names for the 2006 Ugandan DHS?

Thanks in advance,

Mahal

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Re: identifying districts [message #13971 is a reply to message #13713]

Tue, 30 January 2018 15:05

Liz-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Dear User,
As indicated in an earlier post, for the Uganda 2006 DHS these variables were named shdist, shcounty and shscty. The values are there but the names are not specified. Please contact the implementing agency if you need additional information:
Quote:

Additional information about the survey may be obtained from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), Plot 9
Coleville Street, P.O. Box 7186, Kampala, Uganda; Telephone: (256-41) 706000; Fax: (256-41) 237553/230370;
Email: ubos@ubos.org; Internet: www.ubos.org.

Thank you!

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Re: identifying districts [message #15424 is a reply to message #1267]

Tue, 17 July 2018 12:55

kbietsch
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Registered: November 2015
Location: Washington, DC USA

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Wondering if anyone was successful matching the ids in 2006 Uganda DHS to names?

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Re: identifying districts [message #15649 is a reply to message #15424]

Mon, 27 August 2018 15:12

Liz-DHS
Messages: 1516
Registered: February 2013

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Dear User,
Please contact the Implementing Agency. Their contact information is below. Thank you!

Quote:

Additional information about the survey may be obtained from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), Plot 9
Coleville Street, P.O. Box 7186, Kampala, Uganda; Telephone: (256-41) 706000; Fax: (256-41) 237553/230370;
Email: ubos@ubos.org; Internet: www.ubos.org.

[Updated on: Mon, 27 August 2018 15:15]

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Re: identifying districts [message #18749 is a reply to message #1267]

Tue, 11 February 2020 04:00

Geraldo
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Registered: August 2019

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Hello

I am also looking for the district variable, but i have failed to get. I would like to inquire whether you managed and if yes please share with me the procedure.

Regards

Gerald.

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