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Re: Estimating preterm birth [message #19198 is a reply to message #19197]

Fri, 08 May 2020 14:29

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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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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		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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