| Re: SSU variables in the Mauritania DHS2019-2021 [message #28920 is a reply to message #28914] |
Thu, 28 March 2024 13:07   |
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
The table with 1, 623.14 births after August 2019 was constructed with this command: "tab v024 birthdate [iweight=v005/1000000]". The table with just 13.697 births after August 2019 was constructed with "tab v024 birthdate if bidx==1 & v213==1 [iweight=v005/1000000]". Both frequencies were weighted, but the second and much smaller frequency was limited to the most recent birth (bidx=1) and to women who are pregnant at the time of the survey (v213=1). They are a very small subset of the births in the first table. These tables were what I understood you to be requesting.
You say that you are trying to measure the potential impact of an intervention related to ANC care. I don't see how either of these tables could be used to describe such an impact. This is an interesting question, but this survey may not be appropriate for answering it. I would like to help but the question is outside the scope of the user forum. I hope other users can help.
Here is a journal article that may help, but it uses two successive surveys:
Mallick, Lindsay, Trinadh Dontamsetti, Thomas Pullum, and Julia Fleuret. 2019. Using the Uganda Demographic and Health Surveys from 2011 and 2016 to assess changes in Saving Mothers, Giving Life intervention districts. J. of Global Health Research 3. doi:10.29392/joghr.3.e2019026.
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