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Re: 2013 Namibia DHS data: Numbers not matching [message #13564 is a reply to message #13554] Mon, 20 November 2017 03:34 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
jwichmannza is currently offline  jwichmannza
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Hi again

See the FRQ file (uploaded here)

Item HW1: Child's age in months
... tbd-name: '.NMKR61FL_DICT.RECORD1.HW1'
_____________________________ _____________ _____________
Categories Frequency CumFreq % Cum % Net %|cNet %
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________ _____________
0 18 18 0.4 0.4 0.9 0.9
1 55 73 1.1 1.4 2.8 3.8
2 52 125 1.0 2.5 2.7 6.4
3 43 168 0.9 3.3 2.2 8.6
4 58 226 1.1 4.5 3.0 11.6
5 45 271 0.9 5.4 2.3 13.9
6 46 317 0.9 6.3 2.4 16.3
7 44 361 0.9 7.2 2.3 18.6
8 44 405 0.9 8.0 2.3 20.8
9 40 445 0.8 8.8 2.1 22.9
10 44 489 0.9 9.7 2.3 25.1
11 33 522 0.7 10.3 1.7 26.8
12 35 557 0.7 11.0 1.8 28.6
13 52 609 1.0 12.1 2.7 31.3
14 34 643 0.7 12.7 1.7 33.1
15 32 675 0.6 13.4 1.6 34.7
16 44 719 0.9 14.2 2.3 37.0
17 42 761 0.8 15.1 2.2 39.1
18 31 792 0.6 15.7 1.6 40.7
19 28 820 0.6 16.3 1.4 42.2
20 32 852 0.6 16.9 1.6 43.8
21 40 892 0.8 17.7 2.1 45.9
22 25 917 0.5 18.2 1.3 47.1
23 35 952 0.7 18.9 1.8 48.9
24 32 984 0.6 19.5 1.6 50.6
25 41 1025 0.8 20.3 2.1 52.7
26 25 1050 0.5 20.8 1.3 54.0
27 33 1083 0.7 21.5 1.7 55.7
28 36 1119 0.7 22.2 1.9 57.5
29 34 1153 0.7 22.8 1.7 59.3
30 28 1181 0.6 23.4 1.4 60.7
31 37 1218 0.7 24.1 1.9 62.6
32 33 1251 0.7 24.8 1.7 64.3
33 29 1280 0.6 25.4 1.5 65.8
34 30 1310 0.6 26.0 1.5 67.4
35 16 1326 0.3 26.3 0.8 68.2
36 29 1355 0.6 26.9 1.5 69.7
37 30 1385 0.6 27.4 1.5 71.2
38 39 1424 0.8 28.2 2.0 73.2
39 28 1452 0.6 28.8 1.4 74.7
40 23 1475 0.5 29.2 1.2 75.8
41 26 1501 0.5 29.7 1.3 77.2
42 24 1525 0.5 30.2 1.2 78.4
43 25 1550 0.5 30.7 1.3 79.7
44 26 1576 0.5 31.2 1.3 81.0
45 14 1590 0.3 31.5 0.7 81.7
46 34 1624 0.7 32.2 1.7 83.5
47 25 1649 0.5 32.7 1.3 84.8
48 30 1679 0.6 33.3 1.5 86.3
49 26 1705 0.5 33.8 1.3 87.7
50 19 1724 0.4 34.2 1.0 88.6
51 32 1756 0.6 34.8 1.6 90.3
52 32 1788 0.6 35.4 1.6 91.9
53 22 1810 0.4 35.9 1.1 93.1
54 24 1834 0.5 36.3 1.2 94.3
55 26 1860 0.5 36.9 1.3 95.6
56 18 1878 0.4 37.2 0.9 96.6
57 20 1898 0.4 37.6 1.0 97.6
58 21 1919 0.4 38.0 1.1 98.7
59 26 1945 0.5 38.5 1.3 100.0
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________ _____________
NotAppl 3101 5046 61.5 100.0
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________
TOTAL 5046 5046 100.0 100.0




So 3101 missing values for the child's age (in month) variable.

Only 228 children were reported not to be alive anymore, see below, again from FRQ file.

So why so many missing values for the HW1 variable then?


____________________________________________________________ ____________________
Item B5: Child is alive
... tbd-name: '.NMKR61FL_DICT.RECORD1.B5'
_____________________________ _____________
Categories Frequency CumFreq % Cum %
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________
0 No 228 228 4.5 4.5
1 Yes 4818 5046 95.5 100.0
_______________________________ _____________________________ _____________
TOTAL 5046 5046 100.0 100.0
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