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Re: What Should be Used "And (&)" "or "OR (|) [message #20496 is a reply to message #20388]

Thu, 12 November 2020 09:11

Shireen-DHS
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Registered: August 2020
Location: USA

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Dear Dr. Hussain,

Based on your description of your population of interest it seems you should be using & which is AND not OR. However, I am not sure why you would need to exclude birth that occurred in the month of the interview using v210. I cannot comment on your model or your analysis.

For the age/period question, this comes from the RH_age_period.do file on our GitHub site: https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-Stata/tree/mast er/Chap09_RH

Age is the age of the child and period here is defined as the last five years before the survey. For some indicators the estimate is reported in the last 3 years or last 2 years (check the final report for your indicator of interest) so we create the variable period so the user can only change it one time.

So for BR files it is:
gen age = v008 - b3
*if you have b19 in the file you need to use that for age instead so age would be : age=b19
*only recent surveys have b19
gen period = 60
* 60 is 5 years in months

Thank you.

Best,
Shireen Assaf
The DHS Program

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		What Should be Used "And (&)" "or "OR (\|) By: shujaat.smc@gmail.com on Tue, 27 October 2020 05:08
		Re: What Should be Used "And (&)" "or "OR (\|) By: Shireen-DHS on Thu, 12 November 2020 09:11
		Re: What Should be Used "And (&)" "or "OR (\|) By: shujaat.smc@gmail.com on Thu, 12 November 2020 09:35
		Re: What Should be Used "And (&)" "or "OR (\|) By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 13 November 2020 08:03
		Re: What Should be Used "And (&)" "or "OR (\|) By: shujaat.smc@gmail.com on Fri, 13 November 2020 08:18

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