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Is it possible to merge BR and IR file to measure child mortality? [message #27428]

Sun, 13 August 2023 21:10

fraeus
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Registered: February 2023

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Hi. I have merged BR, IR, PR, MR with the support of this community. For my analysis, I also need to calculate children mortality rates, by keeping the information related to their parents as provided in the other datasets. How can I do it? In my current dataset dead children are dropped (this is the code I am using: attacched.

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Re: Is it possible to merge BR and IR file to measure child mortality? [message #27449 is a reply to message #27428]

Tue, 15 August 2023 12:02

Janet-DHS
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Registered: April 2022

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

Under-5 mortality rates are calculated with the BR file, which includes children who have died as well as children who have survived. You certainly cannot calculate mortality rates with a file that omits the children who have died. You may have to go back to your merging procedure and find where it was that you dropped the children who died and put them back into the file.

Children who have died will not be in the PR file (they have b16=.) and it will be impossible to link them with their father in the MR file. Maybe the easiest solution is just to do a separate analysis of mortality with the full BR file.

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