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Re: Place of delivery questions -- Mozambique and Tanzania [message #19944 is a reply to message #19941]

Fri, 04 September 2020 12:09

asheffel
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Registered: July 2017

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Hi Shireen,

Many thanks for your quick reply!

We are working with the recode data files provided by DHS and would like to write our own do-file to classify place of care as per the needs of our analysis (particularly because we would like to disaggregate by facility type and managing authority). As such, we need to clarify the labels in the recode datasets for Mozambique and Tanzania.

For Tanzania 2004, it is still not clear exactly what the delineation is between private and religious facilities. Are response codes 21/27 public, 31/33 private, and 34/37 religious?

For Mozambique 2011, when we tabulate m15 the response options are as follows:

Respondent's home
Other home
Other home (imputed)
Government hospital
General/provincial hospital
Rural hospital
Health center
Other public sector
Private hospital/clinic
Private doctor
Other private sector
Health facility (imputed)
Other
99

While you can certainly collapse these categories to create the variable in your standard code, it doesn't explain the presence of the response options "Other home (imputed)" and "Health facility (imputed)". We are particularly concerned about what "Other home (imputed)" means as this is the response for 34% of the sample. We would like to know what these "imputed" data mean so that we can make a decision on whether or not to include this dataset in our analysis. Any additional information on this would be very much appreciated.

Best,
Ashley

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		Place of delivery questions -- Mozambique and Tanzania By: asheffel on Tue, 01 September 2020 17:33
		Re: Place of delivery questions -- Mozambique and Tanzania By: Shireen-DHS on Fri, 04 September 2020 10:17
		Re: Place of delivery questions -- Mozambique and Tanzania By: asheffel on Fri, 04 September 2020 12:09
		Re: Place of delivery questions -- Mozambique and Tanzania By: Shireen-DHS on Fri, 04 September 2020 12:17

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