| Corrected age from individual file - India 2019 [message #25282] | 
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						Thiago Melo
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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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