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Stillbirth calculation- Zambia Using SPSS [message #26776]

Sun, 30 April 2023 15:44

Shadrick Kayeye
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Registered: February 2023

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Dear DHS Experts,

Kindly help me with the syntax commands I can use to create a stillbirth variable in SPSS for Zambia 2018 DHS data. I was helped with the Stata command not long ago but then I only have access to a laptop that has SPSS now. Your prompt feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Kayeye

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Re: Stillbirth calculation- Zambia Using SPSS [message #26831 is a reply to message #26776]

Fri, 05 May 2023 14:28

Janet-DHS
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Registered: April 2022

Senior Member

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

Unfortunately I don't use SPSS. We have SPSS code for the indicators in the reports on our GitHub site (https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-SPSS). The Stata versions were translated to SPSS by a contractor. There aren't any active SPSS users at DHS.

When I post Stata programs on the forum, including the one you are referring to, I give them as text files, rather than Stata do-files, and with internal comments, partly because then users without Stata can read them and hopefully translate them to SPSS or R if they can follow the logic. Most Stata commands (but definitely not all!) are fairly intuitive.

The different packages have their advantages and disadvantages. Sorry I can't help. Maybe another user can.

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