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IR and MR variables [message #26378]

Tue, 14 March 2023 14:47

AAmp1710
Messages: 1
Registered: March 2023

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Hi,

I'm currently trying to see the causal relationship between siblings' sex and life outcomes (educational attainment, marital status).

I see that IR contains all the variables i need (MM1,V106,V501). However this datasets is just for women

In Men MR data, there is just life outcomes variables but not siblings' sex variable.

Should I merge MR with IR and if so how with using stata or is there other alternative to get siblings' sex variable for men?

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Re: IR and MR variables [message #26391 is a reply to message #26378]

Wed, 15 March 2023 11:29

Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3199
Registered: February 2013

Senior Member

Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

There may be some confusion here. We do not have information about the siblings of the respondent, other than from the mm variables in the sibling history, which are about the survival and cause of death of the siblings. The other variables in the IR file, such as v106 and v501, refer to the respondent herself.

Only a few DHS surveys, none of them recent, have included sibling histories as part of the interview with men. Except for those surveys, there are no mm variables in the MR file.

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