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Children's age in months [message #22195]

Wed, 10 February 2021 07:45

carolineadjimi
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Registered: February 2021

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Dear all,

Thank you very much for your help. I need help calculating children's age in months. Even after reviewing several links, I am still not able to pull it up. I am using STATA and I am wondering if it would be possible to have the commands to achieve my goal.

thank you very much

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Re: Children's age in months [message #22197 is a reply to message #22195]

Wed, 10 February 2021 09:57

Shireen-DHS
Messages: 140
Registered: August 2020
Location: USA

Senior Member

Hello,

This depends on which file you are using.

For KR and BR files this would be :
gen age = v008 - b3

or if the survey has the variable b19, then:
gen age=b19

For IR files it would be:
gen age = v008 - b3_01

and if there is a b19 variable in the dataset, then:
gen age=b19_01

The Guide to DHS Statistics is a good resource for understanding how to use DHS data: https://www.dhsprogram.com/Data/Guide-to-DHS-Statistics/inde x.htm#t=Guide_to_DHS_Statistics_DHS-7.htm

We also have standard code for all indicators listed in the Guide on our code share library hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-Stata

Thank you.

Best,
Shireen Assaf
The DHS Program

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