Rwanda DHS 2010: Discrepancy in result of Hb measurements [message #725] |
Sun, 01 September 2013 10:49 |
richardn
Messages: 4 Registered: August 2013 Location: Berlin
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Dear DHS Team,
I'm using the RDHS 2010 datasets to look, among other things, at malaria and hemoglobin in children between 6-59 months old. I'm working with STATA.
According to the children's recode file (rwkr61fl), 3733 children had their Hb measured (variable hw55).
Because I need malaria results only available in the individuals' recode (rwpr61fl), I merged the 2 datasets.
The PR recode comes with a corresponding variable for the outcome of Hb measurement (hc55). Now, according to this variable, 4068 children had their Hb measured. That's 335 more children than in the KR file.
I looked at all possible reasons I could think of and have not found a plausible explanation for this discrepancy. Can anyone help?
Thanks!!
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