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Re: District Codes in recode files [message #208 is a reply to message #123]

Wed, 27 March 2013 09:13

Thea-DHS
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Caution is advised when reclassifying survey clusters to areas that are smaller than DHS regions, as the survey was not designed to be representative below the DHS regions level, which in most countries is the administrative unit 1 (e.g. Province, State). Some cases such as the Malawi 2011 DHS was sampled to be representative at both the district level and the province level.

You may use the GPS data to reclassify the cluster locations from each survey according to their location. The GPS datafiles contain a shapefile of the cluster locations for use in a GIS software package. QGIS (http://qgis.org/) is a good free software option if you do not have access to paid GIS software products. GADM (http://www.gadm.org/) is a good resource of administrative shapefiles that can be used in the reclassification process.

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		District Codes in recode files By: DHS user on Mon, 18 March 2013 14:30
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: ClaraB-DHS on Mon, 18 March 2013 14:35
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Thea-DHS on Wed, 27 March 2013 09:13
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk on Sat, 17 August 2013 20:15
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: ClaraB-DHS on Wed, 21 August 2013 14:19
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk on Thu, 06 March 2014 17:39
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: yashin5 on Thu, 23 January 2014 16:13
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Josh-DHS on Fri, 24 January 2014 10:51
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: amira.elshal.1@city.ac.uk on Thu, 06 March 2014 17:43
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Josh-DHS on Mon, 10 March 2014 12:55
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: CKAllen on Mon, 05 September 2016 11:33
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Philip on Mon, 30 June 2014 10:00
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Philip on Mon, 30 June 2014 10:02
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Thea-DHS on Wed, 02 July 2014 10:52
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: gregounours on Fri, 10 October 2014 02:40
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: Thea-DHS on Fri, 10 October 2014 09:06
		Re: District Codes in recode files By: zkarar on Mon, 28 October 2019 13:05

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