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Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 [message #18990 is a reply to message #18986]

Tue, 31 March 2020 09:32

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is another response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

Your weighted total is 13% less than the unweighted total. That's plausible. I looked at the file and it appears that the weighted total is indeed about that much less than the unweighted total, although I have different counts. This happens when fertility is different in the under-sampled areas than it is in the over-sampled areas. You then get a bigger discrepancy for the child file than for the woman file.

I believe you are trying to relate stunting to domestic violence. Right? There's an easier way to construct your data file. After opening the IR file, run these Stata lines:

keep v001 v002 v003 v005 d005 hw70_*
keep if d005<.

reshape long hw70_, i(v001 v002 v003) j(bidx)
rename *_ *
drop if hw70==.
gen stunted=0 if hw70<600
replace stunted=1 if hw70<-200

You will want many more variables in the "keep" line, including the stratification variable, but these lines will give you a child file for all the children whose mother was in the same household and was given the DV module.

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		Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Mariela Contreras on Thu, 20 February 2020 22:03
		Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 28 February 2020 08:05
		Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Mariela Contreras on Mon, 23 March 2020 13:21
		Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 30 March 2020 15:59
		Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Mariela Contreras on Mon, 30 March 2020 22:17
		Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 31 March 2020 09:32
		Re: Issues with Honduran DHS dataset 2011-12 By: Mariela Contreras on Tue, 31 March 2020 20:30

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