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Child Education Variable [message #3935]

Sun, 08 March 2015 10:59

ramya89
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Registered: February 2015

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I am working with all three waves of the Indian dataset to understand how socioeconomic status affects school enrollment. The problem with the 1998-99 data is that the household level data contain individual member education (whether in school or not is the variable of interest for me) but children are individually defined only in the birth dataset. Despite merging these two datasets, there is no way to uniquely identify if the child is enrolled in school. Is there a way to match whether the child is in school from household level data to the birth dataset that uniquely defines each child?

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Re: Child Education Variable [message #3966 is a reply to message #3935]

Wed, 11 March 2015 10:02

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from Senior DHS Specialist, Noureddine Abderrahim:

In India 1998-99, education of the children is available only in the household schedule for those who are 6 years old or more. However, we can't link these children to their mother, because the line number of the children in the household schedule, was not collected in the survey.

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Re: Child Education Variable [message #3972 is a reply to message #3966]

Thu, 12 March 2015 21:44

ramya89
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Thank you so much for your response!

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