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Tue, 14 May 2024 13:31  |
Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
Thank you for alerting us to this inconsistency between women and men in the questionnaire and tables (for the Tanzania 2022 survey) for using a mobile phone for banking transactions in the past 12 months. I will re-state what you said in terms of the numbers in the final report.
Both tables 15.6.1 (women) and 15.6.3 (men) have a footnote saying "Respondents were asked about use of a mobile phone for financial transactions whether or not they owned a mobile phone." However, I have checked, and this footnote only applied for women, not for men. I will paste here a table from TZMR82, in which I try to match the 21.7% in column 3 of table 15.6.3.
. tab mv169b mv169a [iweight=wt],m col
last 12 |
months use |
mobile |
telephone |
for |
financial | owns a mobile
transactio | telephone
ns | no yes | Total
-----------+----------------------+----------
no | 1,317.95 93.589638 | 1,411.54
| 91.78 2.16 | 24.49
-----------+----------------------+----------
yes | 118.07353 1,134.521 |1,252.5945
| 8.22 26.22 | 21.74
-----------+----------------------+----------
. | 0 3,098.865 | 3,098.865
| 0.00 71.62 | 53.77
-----------+----------------------+----------
Total | 1,436.024 4,326.976 | 5,763
| 100.00 100.00 | 100.00
. tab mv169b mv169c [iweight=wt],m col
last 12 |
months use |
mobile |
telephone |
for |
financial | is respondent's mobile phone a
transactio | smart phone
ns | no yes . | Total
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
no | 0 93.589638 1,317.95 | 1,411.54
| 0.00 7.62 91.78 | 24.49
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
yes | 0 1,134.521 118.07353 |1,252.5945
| 0.00 92.38 8.22 | 21.74
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
. | 3,098.865 0 0 | 3,098.865
| 100.00 0.00 0.00 | 53.77
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
Total | 3,098.865 1,228.111 1,436.024 | 5,763
| 100.00 100.00 100.00 | 100.00
Because this is a discrepancy in the questionnaire, I don't believe there is any way to modify table 15.6.3 to correspond with table 15.6.1. It WOULD be possible to modify table 15.6.1 to correspond with table 15.6.3, by re-classifying the women who did not have a smartphone as NA on the banking question (but including them in the denominator). I would not recommend that. As a general rule, NA cases should not be included in the denominator of a percentage. You could re-calculate the percentages for both women and men by removing those without a smartphone from the denominator. This would give consistency but could be misleading. I will not make a recommendation, but I hope other users will suggest something.
I have informed our data processing staff of this discrepancy and also the staff who work on questionnaire design.
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