| Re: survival analysis of neonatal mortality [message #30088 is a reply to message #30079] |
Sat, 21 September 2024 02:29   |
kidus28sewagegn@gmail.com
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Registered: September 2024
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Dear janat-dhs
I am asking for help with the DHS dataset for Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically for the period from 2010 to 2022.
In the course of my analysis, I discovered that the datasets from 2015 to recent years have a 'century day code', also known as CDC, but for the years 2010-2015, the datasets only provide a 'century month code', also known as CMC.
Although the 'century day code' provides more precise information to calculate the age in days, I am having difficulty deriving the age in days for the period 2010-2015 due to the absence of this precise information.
For instance, when using the women's dataset from the 2011 Ethiopian DHS (ETIR61FL.DTA), I encountered the same problem. The 'CMC' variable only provides information on the century and month (0-12), which restricts the calculation of age to an approximate number of months.
I kindly seek your advice or suggestion on possible ways to work around this limitation, as using alternative Sub-Saharan African DHS datasets yielded a similar outcome.
Thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my query.
Best regards,
kidus
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