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Sun, 16 March 2014 16:55

amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk is currently offline

amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk
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Dear Sirs,

I am working on the Individual Recode files of Egypt's EDHS 2000 and 2008 using Stata.

I understand that a variable such as who attended at the delivery (m3) is coded by DHS as a set of binary variables (m3a, m3b, etc.)
for each possible option (doctor, nurse/midwife, etc.). What I do NOT understand is why m3a is expanded into m3a_1, m3a_2,...m3a_6. Is that to deal with the case of a woman giving birth to 6 children for example?

Thank you.

Amira

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		Binary Variables Expanded to Six Categories By: amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk on Sun, 16 March 2014 16:55
		Re: Binary Variables Expanded to Six Categories By: Reduced-For(u)m on Mon, 17 March 2014 14:17
		Re: Binary Variables Expanded to Six Categories By: amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk on Wed, 19 March 2014 09:34
		Re: Binary Variables Expanded to Six Categories By: user-rhs on Wed, 19 March 2014 12:57
		Re: Binary Variables Expanded to Six Categories By: amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk on Wed, 18 June 2014 12:08
		Re: Binary Variables Expanded to Six Categories By: user-rhs on Wed, 18 June 2014 13:22

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