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| What are these missing values of skilled ANC providers indicating? [message #19090] |
Sun, 19 April 2020 04:07  |
anikhpg42@gmail.com
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Registered: December 2017
Location: Bangladesh
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Hi,
I want to find out the ANC coverage of Bangladesh, using BDHS 2014.
First I have applied the stata command """ keep if v208 !=0 & v208 !=. """; so, women with no birth since last 5 years disappeared. The final women were 6855.
Then I saw the tabulated number of ANC of Qualified doctor (m2a_1), there, ANC was covered by doctors in 57.9% cases with total 4627 women. [Which correctly matched with the BDHS'14 final report]
So, there were more than 2200 missing values.
Now, can anyone tell me what these missing values (2200 values) indicating? I mean, why there are such a huge values got missing?
Thank you
ASIBUL ISLAM ANIK
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| Re: What are these missing values of skilled ANC providers indicating? [message #19094 is a reply to message #19092] |
Mon, 20 April 2020 03:54  |
anikhpg42@gmail.com
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Hi,
Thanks for your suggestions. I have already applied my own commands and matched with BDHS'14 final report for ANC skilled and unskilled providers.
But, when I dropped women of no ANC visit and no child, then if you see the m2a_1 variable with missing, then you will see 2361 missing values. (I have attached the image of my findings, without svy command)
In your commands, you kept these missing values as else, i.e. recode m2a_1 (1=1 "doctor") (0=0 "not doctor") (else=.), gen(doctor)
... There is the (else==.).
But, my question was, why are there missing values? what are they indicating?
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ASIBUL ISLAM ANIK
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| Re: What are these missing values of skilled ANC providers indicating? [message #31624 is a reply to message #19094] |
Fri, 28 November 2025 16:40 |
Devika
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Registered: November 2025
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Hi
I am working with the child-recode file, where each row represents a child born. As I found mother's variable also in the same file, I am choosing to take variables like m2a from the same file. As I am using only merged variables (HR+KR), I was trying to create "prenatal_dr_visit" I am getting too many missing observations. Is there a way I can find out why so many were missed? Also, there is no m2a_1. Attached the tab m2a, missing.
Other checks I did:
/// checked for no. of children ever born
tab v201, missing
*total |
* children |
*ever born | Freq. Percent Cum.
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* 1 | 2,475 33.23 33.23
* 2 | 2,434 32.68 65.90
* 3 | 1,274 17.10 83.00
* 4 | 648 8.70 91.70
* 5 | 293 3.93 95.64
* 6 | 174 2.34 97.97
* 7 | 75 1.01 98.98
*8 | 32 0.43 99.41
*9 | 25 0.34 99.74
*10 | 11 0.15 99.89
*11 | 5 0.07 99.96
*13 | 3 0.04 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
*Total | 7,449 100.00
/// chekced for number of births in last 5 yrs
tab v208, missing
*births in |
* last five |
* years | Freq. Percent Cum.
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* 1 | 5,661 76.00 76.00
* 2 | 1,646 22.10 98.09
* 3 | 140 1.88 99.97
* 4 | 2 0.03 100.00
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*Total | 7,449 100.00
///checked for live births btw births
tab b15, missing
*live birth |
* between |
* births | Freq. Percent Cum.
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* 0. no | 4,544 61.00 61.00
* 1. yes | 4 0.05 61.06
* . | 2,901 38.94 100.00
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*Total | 7,449 100.00
Looking forward to hearing some feedback.
Thanks,
Devika
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