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Re: mother's age at birth [message #3990 is a reply to message #3937]

Mon, 16 March 2015 13:49

Reduced-For(u)m
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Mother's age at birth is mother's age at survey minus child age. That is a pretty easy way to calculate it.

gen Age_at_Birth = Maternal_age - Child_age

If you did it in months instead of years it would get slightly more accurate, though many women are actually missing information on month of birth (for themselves more often than the child, but for both).

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