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Mauritania 2019-21 high number of missing on v525 (age at first intercourse) [message #24329]

Fri, 22 April 2022 20:26

jwilliamrozelle
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Registered: July 2016

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Hello,

I was looking at the recently released Mauritania 2019-21, and noticed there was an unusually high number of missing values for v525 (4237 missing), and an unusually low number of zero's (34). I was curious if there is something going on here, or how to interpret the missing values. I didn't see it mentioned in the documentation.

Thanks!

Jeffrey W. Rozelle

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Re: Mauritania 2019-21 high number of missing on v525 (age at first intercourse) [message #24438 is a reply to message #24329]

Mon, 16 May 2022 17:45

jwilliamrozelle
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Just wanted to bump this up

Jeffrey W. Rozelle

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Re: Mauritania 2019-21 high number of missing on v525 (age at first intercourse) [message #24455 is a reply to message #24438]

Tue, 17 May 2022 13:59

Janet-DHS
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Registered: April 2022

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Thank you for your post. We are following up on your question and will post a response when we have more information.

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Re: Mauritania 2019-21 high number of missing on v525 (age at first intercourse) [message #24456 is a reply to message #24329]

Tue, 17 May 2022 15:06

Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS Senior Data Processing Specialist, Keith Purvis:

This question was only asked of ever-married women due to cultural reasons. The variable V525 is set to system missing (skipped) for never-married women (V501=0).

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