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Merging PR file with KR file [message #2364]

Mon, 09 June 2014 12:42

geoK
Messages: 56
Registered: May 2014

Senior Member

Hello! I am using Nigeria 2008 datasets and having trouble with finding the right variables to merge children (KR) and individual members (PR).
can anyone help please?
thanks

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Re: Merging PR file with KR file [message #2365 is a reply to message #2364]

Mon, 09 June 2014 13:29

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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There are several discussions on the forum for merging DHS datasets. Please do a search on the Forum for "merge" or "merging". Following is a link for one such discussion.

http:// userforum.dhsprogram.com/index.php?t=msg&th=49&goto= 71&#msg_71

Also, please see the following table:

index.php?t=getfile&id=292&private=0

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Re: Merging PR file with KR file [message #2369 is a reply to message #2365]

Mon, 09 June 2014 15:39

geoK
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Registered: May 2014

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Thank you. I have done the merging several times but never between KR and PR, which I think is not covered in any other topic among the discussions, if I am not wrong. I am struggling this time in getting the variables (and cases) matching but I will try to follow the table you kindly sent and some other discussions. Thanks, Regards.

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Re: Merging PR file with KR file [message #13753 is a reply to message #2369]

Tue, 19 December 2017 11:13

kanchanraj3
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Registered: December 2017
Location: Kathmandu

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Dear DHS Expert,
I am having merging the multiyear data? Do you suggest doing it? What is the ideal way of merging such data sets?

Kanchan

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Re: Merging PR file with KR file [message #13769 is a reply to message #13753]

Wed, 20 December 2017 16:45

Reduced-For(u)m
Messages: 292
Registered: March 2013

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Pooling multiple years is not a "merge", it is an "append". You just add the second round of data onto the first round of data.

There are a number of posts on the forum about dealing with weights and clustering when using multiple survey rounds, but there is no "merging" to be done, just "appending"... the DHS is not longitudinal, so there is no information to be linked from one survey round to the next in terms of merging variables. Another survey is just another set of observations from a different point in time.

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