| Re: producing HAZ distributions [message #15254 is a reply to message #15245] |
Tue, 19 June 2018 18:58   |
tdusingize
Messages: 4
Registered: September 2017
Location: New Zealand
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Dear Shireen Assaf,
Thanks for your reply and for the explanation.I appreaciate.
However, I am not familiar with STATA and I was wondering if one could:
1) extract child sex, age, weight and height data from the PR files (i.e., copying these variables from, for example SPSS data set;
2) clean the data (by cleaning I mean take out the 9999, other, refused, and not present);
3) use WHO Anthro or ENA for SMART, to generate WAZ and HAZ;
4) copy HAZ data and use other software (for example R) to plot WAZ or HAZ?
I read somewhere on this forum that HAZ before 2005 were generated using NCHS reference, not WHO 2006 Standards. From my understanding, I think I need to re-calculate HAZ for 2000, 2005 using WHO 2006 standards for me to make a comparison with the HAZ of 2010 and 2015.
Another challenge is that I am not getting exactly the same number of children as in DHS reports after cleaning the data.
Kindly let me know your thought on these as well.
Thanks,
Theo
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