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Re: Estimating preterm birth [message #19160 is a reply to message #19149]

Fri, 01 May 2020 10:11

Bridgette-DHS
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This is a multiple occurring variables, and each occurrence of every multiple variable must have its own name because statistical packages do not generally support the use of arrays or subscripts. For example, the third occurrence of the variable M18 would be named M18$03 in SPSS, or M18_03 in SAS and STATA.

You might want to use the Child file (KR) or the Births file (BR), because in these files, you will have just one variable for each observation.

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		Estimating preterm birth By: Ghose on Sat, 01 February 2020 11:05
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 07 February 2020 11:04
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: lillo?S on Tue, 28 April 2020 09:16
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 01 May 2020 10:11
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: lillo?S on Fri, 01 May 2020 10:24
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: lmallick on Fri, 08 May 2020 13:34
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 08 May 2020 14:29
		Re: Estimating preterm birth By: mianrashid on Thu, 30 April 2020 01:13

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