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| Re: About BMI of Mother [message #29465 is a reply to message #29416] |
Mon, 24 June 2024 09:40  |
Janet-DHS
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
The children's and women's heights and weights are measured during the household interview. The anthropometry scores are calculated from those measurements. When the IR and KR files are constructed, the measurements and scores are a copied in. The PR file includes some women who are not mothers and some children who are not living with their mothers, but those are cases for which the linkage you want to do is not possible.
In your analysis I suppose there is indeed some bias, in that you only include women who are mothers, and you only include children who mothers are alive and living with the child, but if you define your study population to consist of such combinations, which seems reasonable to me, then you are ok.
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