| Re: Struggling with merging Senegal KR data file to mother's file [message #24305 is a reply to message #24243] |
Fri, 15 April 2022 16:02  |
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Following is response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:
The PR file includes all household members. The IR file includes women who were eligible for the women's interview, in terms of age and de facto residency. Some women who are eligible for the IR file do not actually get into it because (for one reason or another) the interview does not happen. The KR file includes children born in the past 5 years to women in the IR file. It includes children who died and some children who live elsewhere, so they are not in the PR file.
For these reasons, you cannot get an exact match between the PR file and the KR file, either for the children or for the mothers. You definitely will not find "elderly" in the KR file, because the mothers must be in the age range 15-49. Mothers in the KR file are repeated for each child.
If this does not answer your question, please be more specific about which data files you are using and which cases or variables you want to match.
We now have repositories of code written in Stata and SPSS available on Github. Please reference these code repositories as a resource for code for matching or calculating DHS indicators. The code repositories can be found at:
https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-Stata
https://github.com/DHSProgram/DHS-Indicators-SPSS
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