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Re: matching periodic data on same individual over several DHS periods [message #8880 is a reply to message #8879]

Mon, 11 January 2016 08:49

Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

The samples are completely different in successive surveys. It has probably never happened that an individual or a household has appeared in more than one DHS survey. The kind of linkage you describe is not possible.

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