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Re: Appending datasets of one country for several years [message #15756 is a reply to message #15442]

Mon, 10 September 2018 20:45

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Specialist, Tom Pullum:

Yes, you definitely need to construct unique ID codes for the clusters (PSUs) in the separate rounds. I suggest the following. First, give separate survey numbers to the 2002 and 2012 rounds, during the appending. For example, say that they are survey=1 and survey=2. You then construct a unique PSU ID with "egen clusterid=group(survey v001)". Similarly, if v023 is the stratum variable, you can construct a unique stratum ID with "egen stratumid=group(survey v023)". Then you put clusterid and stratumid in the appropriate places in svyset. There have been other posts on this topic.

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		Appending datasets of one country for several years By: Kamola on Mon, 23 July 2018 01:14
		Re: Appending datasets of one country for several years By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 10 September 2018 20:45
		Re: Appending datasets of one country for several years By: boyle014 on Tue, 11 September 2018 12:56

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