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DHS phase in the 2014 Ghana DHS [message #26664]

Fri, 14 April 2023 08:24

Johanne Elgaard
Messages: 6
Registered: April 2023

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I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out which DHS phase the 2014 Ghana DHS is conducted under. The Stata file I have downloaded is called 72, indicatingt that is a DHS VII questionnaire. However when opening the Individual Recode Documentation attached to the data files, it says that it is a DHS-VI dataset. Can someone help me figure out the phase?
Thank you in advance
Best regards
Johanne Elgaard

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Re: DHS phase in the 2014 Ghana DHS [message #26665 is a reply to message #26664]

Fri, 14 April 2023 09:35

Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3199
Registered: February 2013

Senior Member

The "6" in the documentation means that this survey followed the DHS-6 standard recode, even though it is under the DHS "7" phase/contract. Many of the early surveys that have "7" as the 5th character in the filenames are actually DHS-6 surveys, in terms of the standard recode structure used. For most rounds of DHS, there is a lag of a couple of years between the beginning of a new phase/contract of DHS, which is determined by the dates of the contract with USAID, and the implementation of the new standards (recode programs) for that phase.

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