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Child Mortality Calculations [message #28314] Tue, 12 December 2023 12:36 Go to next message
Abid_F is currently offline  Abid_F
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Hello Friends,

I am using syncmrates command to calculate child mortality rates. I find no problem with NFHS-3, NFHS-4 & NFHS-5. However, I cannot get CMR and U5MR rates for NFHS-1 & NFHS-2. Please help. Thanks
Re: Child Mortality Calculations [message #28377 is a reply to message #28314] Fri, 22 December 2023 09:16 Go to previous message
Janet-DHS is currently offline  Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

Those rates were published in the original reports. Why do you want to re-calculate them?

The under-5 rates are calculated from the BR file and the only variables they use are v005, v008, v011, b3, and b7. All of those variables are in IABR23FL.dta and IABR42FL.dta. I have no idea why the program you are using (which is not a DHS program) is unable to produce the rates.
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