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Merging three different files [message #3959]

Tue, 10 March 2015 12:16

duke2015
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Registered: March 2015
Location: United States

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Hi there,

Several questions for you....thanks in advance!

I want to work with variables from the women's and household survey of the 2011 Uganda DHS.

Question 1: Is there a general syntax (I'm using Stata) from which to merge these files? My unit of analysis is children under 5.

I merged the household recode file with the children's recode file, and only 7,878 cases were matched, leaving over 4,000 unmatched.

Question 2: Can you explain why only 7878 of the child's dataset were able to match to the household data?

Question 3: Is the children's recode data made by DHS from the information in the women's questionnaire? If I'm interested in looking at maternal level of education, how can I make sure that the woman interviewed is the mother of the child I'm analyzing?

Thanks!

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		Merging three different files By: duke2015 on Tue, 10 March 2015 12:16
		Re: Merging three different files By: Liz-DHS on Mon, 16 March 2015 17:28
		Re: Merging three different files By: duke2015 on Sun, 14 June 2015 11:32
		Re: Merging three different files By: Liz-DHS on Wed, 01 July 2015 15:00
		Re: Merging three different files By: duke2015 on Mon, 06 July 2015 13:24
		Re: Merging three different files By: Liz-DHS on Tue, 27 October 2015 20:25
		Re: Merging three different files By: duke2015 on Mon, 18 January 2016 11:43

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