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| URGENT QUESTION: Missing child nutrition values in Uganda DHS2016 [message #19429] |
Tue, 16 June 2020 18:16  |
smd80
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Registered: June 2020
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Dear DHS Program
I would like to examine the intimate partner violence variables (RECDV WD1) and child height and weight under age 5 (REC44 W44) contained in the Individual Questionnaire (IR File UGIR7BSV). Unfortunately, there seems to be an issue in the dataset: there are no child nutrition values for any of the women who responded to the domestic violence module, even though the dataset indicates that there are 5615 respondents to the domestic violence module with at least one child. Do you know why/how the nutrition-related variables related to all of these children can be blank?
I wondered whether mothers needed to be matched to children via the household number or birth index, but this is not the case in other DHS datasets. Moreover, there are child nutrition values for other respondents, just not the respondents to the domestic violence module.
I would very grateful for a response, as this seems to be a serious issue and may affect other important ongoing Uganda DHS analyses.
Thank you very much in advance and kind regards
JSD
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| Re: URGENT QUESTION: Missing child nutrition values in Uganda DHS2016 [message #22427 is a reply to message #22417] |
Thu, 11 March 2021 12:05  |
jfleuret
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Registered: May 2019
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Dear Sarika,
Yes, because in the 2016 UDHS anthropometry data were not collected in households where the DV module was implemented, there is no link between those variables.
Surveys often have subsamples (quite often for biomarkers and, to the best of my knowledge, always for DV). While the DV subsampling also has to do with wanting to increase confidentiality, subsampling is generally recognized as a tool to reduce survey burden and increase the feasibility of survey implementation - it's not a specific decision to avoid collecting anthro in DV households.
I encourage you to check Chapter 1 of the Final Report for any survey in which you are interested to understand whether that survey collected all data in all households or had any subsampling (different biomarkers in different households, different questionnaires in different households).
Subsampling decisions are survey-specific and are taken during survey design by the survey implementing organization & steering committee. Precedents are not set in stone.
I can't think of any way to extrapolate from the children with anthro data (but no mother DV data) to children without anthro data (but yes mother DV data), although I am not a statistician/expert in this domain.
Please don't hesitate to let us know of any other questions & good luck with your PhD.
Best,
Julia
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| Re: URGENT QUESTION: Missing child nutrition values in Uganda DHS2016 [message #22430 is a reply to message #22429] |
Thu, 11 March 2021 14:18 |
jfleuret
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Registered: May 2019
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Dear Sarika,
For the 2006 and 2011 UDHSes, I was not involved with them and don't know the answer offhand - as I mentioned, checking the first chapter of the final report should be enlightening.
For other sources - I don't think I know of anyplace you wouldn't have already thought of (MOH, Makerere, USAID, CDC, UNICEF, etc.), although of course not all research/datasets from those sources would be publicly available.
In the 2016 UDHS, you do of course have IYCF, supplementation, birth weight, etc. info for children (in the right age group) of women who responded to DV questions; perhaps those may be fruitful variables to explore.
Best,
Julia
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