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Re: ages at first marriage and first birth [message #638 is a reply to message #630]

Thu, 18 July 2013 17:42

Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013

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After further review and checking of the original programs, I discovered that in the 1992-93 survey v511 actually contains the age the woman started living with her current husband, and not the first husband. The information on the age of the woman when she started living with her first husband is in s113. Thus, I would adjust the instructions given for calculating v509 as follows:

generate age1stm = v511
replace age1stm = s113 if s113 < 96

replace v509 = v011 + 12 * age1st + int(12*runiform()) if age1stm < 97

Note the added condition to exclude a small number of cases where the age started living together was not available.

We will be making a correction to the dataset to correct v511 and will release the corrected dataset in the near future.

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		ages at first marriage and first birth By: sowmyarajan on Mon, 08 July 2013 14:08
		Re: ages at first marriage and first birth By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 16 July 2013 09:50
		Re: ages at first marriage and first birth By: Trevor-DHS on Thu, 18 July 2013 17:42
		Re: ages at first marriage and first birth By: psuarez on Wed, 14 January 2015 20:47
		Re: ages at first marriage and first birth By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 03 February 2015 11:45

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