The DHS Program User Forum: Child Health » How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort

Home » Topics » Child Health » How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort (Generating new variables )

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Re: How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort [message #29263 is a reply to message #29248]

Thu, 16 May 2024 09:43

Janet-DHS
Messages: 938
Registered: April 2022

Senior Member

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

Because you want birth cohorts of children, rather than mothers, it will be easier to use the BR file. It has one record for each birth in the birth histories, whether or not the child survived, so b1 and b2 are always coded and you don't need to use "capture confirm". Single-year (calendar year) birth cohorts are given by b2.

Note that in many surveys conducted before 2000, if you are going back that far, years may be given with just the last two digits--for example, "92" instead of "1992".

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort By: Atazonomics on Tue, 14 May 2024 20:48
		Re: How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort By: Janet-DHS on Thu, 16 May 2024 09:43
		Re: How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort By: Atazonomics on Thu, 16 May 2024 10:01
		Re: How to generate Month-Year birth Cohort By: Janet-DHS on Tue, 11 June 2024 15:46

Previous Topic:	still birth
Next Topic:	Early childhood development

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Wed Jun 11 02:42:21 Coordinated Universal Time 2025