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Re: Problem with gender variable merging household recode with women's recode [message #5637 is a reply to message #5636]

Fri, 19 June 2015 03:44

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I think I realized the issue: In AIS, the IR file can include both men and women (identified through the aidsex variable), which is not the case for DHS files, where IR indicates women's recode. That would be why there's no male recode (MR) in the AIS file. So the merge is working as it should.

Tia Palermo

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