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Labeling mistakes in exposure to mass media variables in Zambia 2007 stata dataset [message #2663] Sun, 03 August 2014 12:00 Go to previous message
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I am Yunhee, graduate student of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
I have been doing data analysis with Zambia 2007 DHS dataset (stata format) and I wanted to know exposure to mass media among adolescent groups by tabulating such variables (v157,v158, v159). But I found labeling mistakes below and questions/answers seemed to be inconsistent with questions in DHS questionnaires. Could you help me clear about this?

< STATA dataset>
. tab v157

frequency of reading |
newspaper or magazine | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------------------+-----------------------------------
no education, preschool | 883 55.60 55.60
primary | 233 14.67 70.28
secondary | 261 16.44 86.71
higher | 209 13.16 99.87
9 | 2 0.13 100.00
------------------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 1,588 100.00

: their answers were recorded as 0,1,2,3,9, which is not consistent with Zambia questionnaire itself and even compared with other countries' dataset.
< DHS questionnaires>
Do you read a newspaper or magazine almost every day, at least once a week, less than once a week or not at all?
ALMOST EVERY DAY . . . . . . . . . . .1
AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK . . . . . . . . .2
LESS THAN ONCE A WEEK . . . . . . . . 3
NOT AT ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

 
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