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Re: Estimating preterm birth [message #19198 is a reply to message #19197] Fri, 08 May 2020 14:29 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

When you have the month and year of an event, but not the day, and some calculation depends on knowing the day, we usually assign the 15th of the month. That will minimize the error. I think you may find exceptions, in which the 1st of the month is assigned (or is implied by the way the calculation is done). But usually the 15th.
 
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