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DHS 2015-16 India Eligible Women Module. Section 10. HIV/AIDS [message #19572]

Mon, 13 July 2020 23:34

jchat
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Registered: July 2020

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I am using the DHS 2015-16 for India. Eligible Women Module. Section 10. HIV/AIDS

Was this section only administered to those who were tested for HIV? I ask because there is a lot of missing data in this module. For example, the question about "have you ever heard of hiv/aids" is the first question in the section and it has 577,335 missing data points out of 699,686, even though there is no skip notes before that.

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Re: DHS 2015-16 India Eligible Women Module. Section 10. HIV/AIDS [message #19625 is a reply to message #19572]

Wed, 22 July 2020 08:56

fredarnold
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Registered: March 2014

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In NFHS-5, not all sections of the questionnaire are administered to every eligible women. All eligible women answer the questions in Section 1-7 of the woman's questionnaire, but only a subsample are asked the questions in Sections 8-11, which includes the HIV section. The identification block on the cover page of the woman's questionnaire include the following question: "Is household selected for the state module?" The state module is essentially the long version of the questionnaire. There is a filter question at the end of Section 7 of the woman's questionnaire (Q. 732) that checks whether or not the household was selected for the state module. If the answer is NO, then the interviewer skips to the end of the questionnaire. The same procedure was used in the NFHS-4 survey.

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