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Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes [message #9527 is a reply to message #9519]

Fri, 08 April 2016 13:27

Bridgette-DHS
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A response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

Hi Carrie--

I'm glad it worked. That's all I meant by "*this match works fine". There were no error messages. I should have removed the comments. I checked one merge and then the other and just inserted the comments in case I had to switch to something else....

The BR file includes all "children" in the birth histories, many of whom are now adults and living in their own households. I'm sure that almost all of the of the very youngest children will be living in the same household as their mother. For children of increasing age, the probability that the mother has died or lives in a different household will increase steadily. It's not that the older children don't have households--it's just that they are not in the same household as the mother.

You may actually want this merge only for children under five, which you would get by using the KR file rather than the BR file.

Let me know if you have other questions.

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		Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: cbdolan on Tue, 05 April 2016 09:47
		Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: Bridgette-DHS on Thu, 07 April 2016 14:23
		Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: cbdolan on Thu, 07 April 2016 16:14
		Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 08 April 2016 13:27
		Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 15 April 2016 07:29
		Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 15 April 2016 07:34
		Re: Merging Birth and Household Recodes By: cbdolan on Fri, 15 April 2016 11:16

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