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Re: stunting variable [message #3685 is a reply to message #3682]

Mon, 26 January 2015 22:13

Reduced-For(u)m
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I believe you are using the wrong (read: less optimal) dataset. The "_01" variables usually refer to the birth order when you have multiple children per observation. My guess is you are using one of the household-level recodes, where a household (or a woman interviewed) is the unit of observation (the row in your spreadsheet). Better would be to use the Child recode which has a child as the unit of observation. In that recode there should only be 1 value of HC70 - the one for that particular child.

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		stunting variable By: adotei on Mon, 26 January 2015 09:06
		Re: stunting variable By: Reduced-For(u)m on Mon, 26 January 2015 22:13
		Re: stunting variable By: adotei on Tue, 27 January 2015 10:44
		Re: stunting variable By: Reduced-For(u)m on Tue, 10 February 2015 14:48
		Re: stunting variable By: adotei on Tue, 27 January 2015 10:53
		Re: stunting variable By: Liz-DHS on Wed, 28 January 2015 12:36

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