Home » Topics » Mortality » Still Birth in India DHS-VII (Calculation of Still Birth Rates in India DHS-VII not matching with DHS report.)
| Re: Still Birth in India DHS-VII [message #27730 is a reply to message #27706] |
Wed, 27 September 2023 09:26   |
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
Are you referring to vcal_7, rather than the entire birth history? Not sure why you want to do this, but I'll sketch out how I would do it. I would select some other letter or symbol that does not appear in the calendar, for example "#". Using the regexr function, I would loop through vcal_7, 6 times should be enough, as follows:
forvalues li=1/6 {
regexr(vcal_7,"B","#")
regexr(vcal_7,"TPPPPPP","#######")
}
This will replace the B's with # and replace TPPPPPP (a stillbirth) with #######. You have to repeat 6 times because regexr only changes the first occurrence of the string. But, as I said, I'm not sure what this will accomplish, because vcal_7 does not include miscarriages or abortions.
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