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NFHS-4 issue with district variable [message #24256]

Fri, 01 April 2022 10:45

ingmar_e
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I think I found some errors in the coding of the district variable of the NFHS-4 GPS data set (variable "DHSREGNA" in IAGE71FL.shp).
Two Punjab districts - Sangrur and Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar - seem to be interchanged. Also some Manipur Clusters which are actually located in the district Imphal East are coded as Imphal West and vice versa. If I am correct, the corresponding district variables in the recode datasets ("shdistri") contain the same errors. Find attached a table containing the DHSIDs of the points which I think are wrongly coded. For locating them, I used a personal revision of a district map which can be found online ( https://github.com/datameet/maps/blob/master/Survey-of-India -Index-Maps/Boundaries/India-Districts-2011Census.shp). I would attach it too, but unfortunately it exceeds the file size limit.

Attachment: IAGE71FL_district_errors.csv
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Re: NFHS-4 issue with district variable [message #24300 is a reply to message #24256]

Fri, 15 April 2022 15:59

admin
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Registered: November 2012

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Following is response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:

Thank you for finding this possible inconsistency. We will look into it, and if necessary will replace with a corrected file.

We now have repositories of code written in Stata and SPSS available on Github. Please reference these code repositories as a resource for code for matching or calculating DHS indicators. The code repositories can be found at:

https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-Stata
https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-SPSS

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