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Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data [message #2024 is a reply to message #1895]

Tue, 15 April 2014 11:29

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is Shea Rutstein's response to your post:

MIDX is the index to the maternal health section. As the standard recode is structured, the child of the section with MIDX(1) is the most recent child born in the five years preceding the survey. BIDX is the index to the birth history section. BIDX(1) refers to the most recent child of the mother. However, this child could have been born prior to the five years preceding the survey. Therefore the number of children is not the same since many mothers will have their youngest child whose age is five years or higher (or a dead child born five or more years ago). Thus the count of children with BIDX(1)=1 can be greater than that of children with MIDX(1)=1. Matching the sections needs to be done so that there is a one-to-one correspondence.

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		Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Mon, 24 February 2014 15:28
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 25 February 2014 14:34
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Sun, 02 March 2014 16:49
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 26 March 2014 09:32
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Sun, 06 April 2014 18:16
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 15 April 2014 11:29
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: user-rhs on Tue, 15 April 2014 14:51
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Fri, 25 April 2014 06:38
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Fri, 25 April 2014 07:20
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Fri, 25 April 2014 07:21
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 28 April 2014 18:12
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Sat, 03 May 2014 12:08
		Re: Infant data(less then 1 yr) from Children data By: Malachi Arunda on Sat, 03 May 2014 12:32

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