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Re: Mali ethnicities [message #2440 is a reply to message #2420] Wed, 18 June 2014 10:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Following is a response from Mali Country Manager, Soumaila Mariko:

The name of the ethnic group is misspelled in your posting, which explains why you can't find it in the data. The name of this ethnic group in our data and the reports is spelt: "Tamachek" or "Tamacheck", depending on what was adopted in our early DHSs in Mali, but not "Tanachek" as spelt in the posting.

For instance, in the 2006 report, the table 3.1 shows "Tamachek" 4.1% for women and 2.1% for men in the national survey sample. So data exist on the "Tamachek" ethnic group in the DHS data for Mali, but for very few cases. With only 4.1% of women and 2.1% of men in the national representative sample, you should not expect to find cases in this ethnic group, for each and every variable in the dataset.

[Updated on: Wed, 18 June 2014 11:48]

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