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Women empowerment [message #12160] Mon, 03 April 2017 23:30 Go to next message
bella is currently offline  bella
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Hello..how can I recode women empowerment (decision making)using stata.. I want to combine the following variables v743a v743a v743b v743c v743d into one variable.please help

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Re: Women empowerment [message #12264 is a reply to message #12160] Tue, 18 April 2017 17:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  Trevor-DHS
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For decision making, we standardly use:
gen decisionmaking = 0
replace decisionmaking = decisionmaking + 1 if v743a==1 | v743a==2
replace decisionmaking = decisionmaking + 1 if v743b==1 | v743b==2
replace decisionmaking = decisionmaking + 1 if v743d==1 | v743d==2

In some surveys, additional questions are asked and may be used in the decision making variable.
Re: Women empowerment [message #14868 is a reply to message #12264] Thu, 10 May 2018 10:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hassen
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Dear Trevor, How can I create Women empowerment index using SPSS?
With best wishes,Hassen


Hassen Ali(Chief Public Health Professional Specialist)
Re: Women empowerment [message #14876 is a reply to message #14868] Thu, 10 May 2018 15:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  Trevor-DHS
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We do not produce a women's empowerment index, but there are various measures of women's empowerment that are presented in the DHS reports. Please see the description of the Women's empowerment chapter in the DHS tabulation plan chapter on Women's Empowerment
Re: Women empowerment [message #14877 is a reply to message #14876] Thu, 10 May 2018 17:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hassen
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Thank you very much!! It is helpful.
Respectfully,Hassen


Hassen Ali(Chief Public Health Professional Specialist)
Re: Women empowerment [message #17667 is a reply to message #12264] Sat, 04 May 2019 21:56 Go to previous message
jennytrini is currently offline  jennytrini
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This is really helpful. I'm trying to construct the measure for multiple countries and am worried about mis-categorizing any cases with missing values. Here's some more "conservative" code that I mocked-up? How does it look to y'all who have used these measures before?

/* recode each domain to 1 if woman has full/shared autonomy, and 0 if not.*/
gen power1=v743a
gen power2=v743b
gen power3=v743d
recode power* (1 2=1) (3 4 5 6 7 9=0)
/*sum those measures together, ignoring cases that are missing on all three */
egen decisionmaking = rowtotal(power*), missing
tab decisionmaking, m
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