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Re: Linking parents to children [message #2636 is a reply to message #2635]

Tue, 29 July 2014 11:37

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from Senior Data Processing Specialist, Noureddine Abderrahim:

The DHS standard questionnaire asks four questions on survivorship and residence of parents, in columns 12 through 15 of the household schedule. Columns 12 and 14 determine whether the mother and the father live in the household or are visitors. In case the mother or the father is alive and lives in the household, columns 13 and 15 records the line number(s) of the parent(s).

You may use these two questions to relate the child to his/her parent. However, these questions (12 through 15) are only asked for children 0-17 years old. You can therefore generate the mother's and father's years of schooling, only for children 0-17 years old. You will be missing that information for all children 18-24 years old.

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		Linking parents to children By: nnalo on Fri, 18 July 2014 11:51
		Re: Linking parents to children By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 18 July 2014 17:36
		Re: Linking parents to children By: nnalo on Fri, 18 July 2014 19:26
		Re: Linking parents to children By: smileyc on Tue, 29 July 2014 00:51
		Re: Linking parents to children By: smileyc on Tue, 29 July 2014 00:51
		Re: Linking parents to children By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 29 July 2014 11:37
		Re: Linking parents to children By: smileyc on Tue, 29 July 2014 19:10
		Re: Linking parents to children By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 30 July 2014 08:56
		Re: Linking parents to children By: emre on Tue, 30 May 2017 04:34
		Re: Linking parents to children By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 30 May 2017 15:19

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