| Corrected age from individual file - India 2019 [message #25282] |
Tue, 27 September 2022 14:10  |
Thiago Melo
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Registered: April 2021
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Hello,
While working with some child indicators in the PR dataset of India 2019, we noticed some differences in the ages provided by the following variables:
hv105 age of household members, used in indicators such as "Percentage of de jure children under age 5 whose births are registered with civil authorities and who had a birth certificate"
hml16 corrected age from individual file, used in indicators such as "Percentage of children under age 5 who slept the night before the survey under an insecticide treated net (ITN)"
We have some instances where the same person has 0 years in one variable and 100 years in other (see Figure 1 attached). This leads to differences in the indicators' denominators. We also checked India 2015 and Gambia 2019 for comparison and the differences were not so dramatic (Figures 2 and 3, respectively).
Why are there such big differences?
We would appreciate some guidance.
Thank you in advance,
Thiago Melo
International Center for Equity in Health | Pelotas
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