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Re: Variable V238 in NFHS 1 [message #11446 is a reply to message #11304]

Thu, 22 December 2016 01:12

Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013

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Actually in NFHS 1 there is information for children born in the four years preceding the interview. Using the Individiual Recode file, you can calculate the births in the last 4 years as follows:

gen kids = 0
foreach b of var b3* {
  replace kids = kids + 1 if v008 - `b' < 48
}

I also discovered that in this survey, although v208 is labeled births in the last 5 years it actually contains births in the last 4 years. You can verify this by comparing v208 to the kids variable as follows:

tab v208 kids

So thus you can use v208 for this survey.

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		Variable V238 in NFHS 1 By: phres110 on Thu, 01 December 2016 09:48
		Re: Variable V238 in NFHS 1 By: Trevor-DHS on Thu, 22 December 2016 01:12
		Re: Variable V238 in NFHS 1 By: phres110 on Thu, 22 December 2016 03:15

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