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Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets [message #13551 is a reply to message #9183]

Fri, 17 November 2017 12:39

kcaglaya@tulane.edu is currently offline

kcaglaya@tulane.edu
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Hi,

I use b1 (month of birth) and hw16 (day of birth of child) in my analysis and initially assumed that both of these information are provided according to the Ethiopian calendar. However, as mentioned before in the forum; hw16 takes the values from 1 to 31 in 2011 and 2016 Surveys. (In 2000 and 2005 max value for hw16 is 30) I looked at the months in which hw16 is equal to 31 and this is how it looks like:

. tab b1 if hw16==31

month of |
birth | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
1 | 37 24.03 24.03
3 | 21 13.64 37.66
5 | 25 16.23 53.90
7 | 19 12.34 66.23
8 | 30 19.48 85.71
10 | 16 10.39 96.10
12 | 6 3.90 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 154 100.00

These are the Gregorian months with 31 days. Does this mean that b1 (month of birth) is also in Gregorian calendar? Also see the months with 30 and 31 days:

. tab b1 if hw16==31 | hw16==30

month of |
birth | Freq. Percent Cum.
------------+-----------------------------------
1 | 73 14.07 14.07
3 | 52 10.02 24.08
4 | 32 6.17 30.25
5 | 67 12.91 43.16
6 | 38 7.32 50.48
7 | 72 13.87 64.35
8 | 59 11.37 75.72
9 | 27 5.20 80.92
10 | 52 10.02 90.94
11 | 26 5.01 95.95
12 | 21 4.05 100.00
------------+-----------------------------------
Total | 519 100.00

It lacks February as we expect from the Gregorian Calendar.

My conversion from Ethiopian to Gregorian calendar depends on b1. I would greatly appreciate a clarification regarding the variable b1.

Regards,

Koray Caglayan

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		Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: DHS user on Wed, 20 February 2013 11:19
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 20 February 2013 11:28
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: lillo?S on Fri, 22 January 2016 12:02
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: lillo?S on Fri, 22 January 2016 12:04
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 29 January 2016 12:56
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: st89 on Fri, 19 February 2016 10:12
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 19 February 2016 12:02
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Fri, 17 November 2017 12:39
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 18 December 2017 12:26
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Mon, 18 December 2017 13:21
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 18 December 2017 17:15
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 19 December 2017 14:31
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Tue, 19 December 2017 14:50
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 19 December 2017 16:31
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Tue, 19 December 2017 17:03
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Tue, 05 February 2019 10:36
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Tue, 05 February 2019 10:48
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Tue, 05 February 2019 12:14
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 08:05
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:01
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:03
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:09
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:15
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:21
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:26
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		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 07 March 2023 16:05
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Mark on Wed, 01 May 2019 01:56
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