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Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 [message #26282 is a reply to message #26280]

Fri, 03 March 2023 08:34

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

When calculating this kind of percentage, or the median age at marriage, you have to assign the never-married women to some numerical value, preferably one that is outside the age range of the data, such as 50 or 99. Otherwise, if they were treated as NA (age at marriage not applicable), the denominator for the calculation will be incorrect. These indicators are tricky to calculate in ever-married samples, because the women who have not (yet) married are not in the data.

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		Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: cpmavelikara18@gmail.com on Tue, 01 November 2022 12:30
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 04 November 2022 08:55
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Varsha on Fri, 03 March 2023 06:43
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 03 March 2023 08:34
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Varsha on Fri, 03 March 2023 14:20
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 06 March 2023 11:13
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Varsha on Wed, 08 March 2023 09:26
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 08 March 2023 13:40
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Varsha on Thu, 09 March 2023 04:08
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: cpmavelikara18@gmail.com on Sat, 05 November 2022 01:17
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 07 November 2022 12:00
		Re: Estimation of percentage of 20-24 year old women who married before the age of 18 By: cpmavelikara18@gmail.com on Tue, 08 November 2022 00:59

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