| number of live births for the past 5 years prior to the DHS [message #826] |
Wed, 09 October 2013 10:54  |
rkinoshita
Messages: 6
Registered: September 2013
Location: Nicaragua
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Hi.
I am using DHS Nicaragua data and noticed some discrepancy in the N. of live births in the report, v.s. what I got from my analysis.
I am using the original data set of babies and women, without using weighting for now.
the report says there were data on 6774 live births in the baby dataset- this is since 2006 (5 years prior to the survey)
I used the variable QW224A which is the year of birth, and filtered for the births which are later than 2006 on. I am having too many births now. I also checked other variables and it seems like "was your baby weight at birth?" this question has similar number to the number that we have in the report although there are still too many.
How do you calculate the number of live births over the past 5 years in the standard DHS?
thanks
Rinko
. tab ordnac if QW224A >=2006
Orden de |
nacimientos | Freq. Percent Cum.
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1 | 3,026 34.92 34.92
2 | 2,475 28.56 63.48
3 | 1,383 15.96 79.44
4 | 770 8.89 88.32
5 | 408 4.71 93.03
6 | 235 2.71 95.74
7 | 158 1.82 97.57
8 | 91 1.05 98.62
9 | 55 0.63 99.25
10 | 39 0.45 99.70
11 | 14 0.16 99.86
12 | 7 0.08 99.94
13 | 2 0.02 99.97
14 | 1 0.01 99.98
16 | 2 0.02 100.00
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Total | 8,666 100.00
. tab VPES if QW224A >=2006
D. Le |
pesaron en |
el momento |
de nacer o |
en los |
primeros 7 |
dias? | Freq. Percent Cum.
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1 | 6,923 90.41 90.41
2 | 674 8.80 99.22
9 | 60 0.78 100.00
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Total | 7,657 100.00
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