| Water source in Nigeria 2003 [message #13556] |
Fri, 17 November 2017 14:14  |
pbwhite@umd.edu
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Registered: November 2017
Location: University of Maryland
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Hi,
It seems that in the DHS Children's Recode for the Nigeria 2003 survey, the v113 (drinking water source), when v113=32 in the stata files, the label for this value is "Protected well in yard/plot", whereas in the other Nigeria surveys, 32 is labeled as "Unprotected well." I wanted to confirm that this difference is intentional and not a potential data entry error.
Thank you.
-Peter
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| Re: Water source in Nigeria 2003 [message #14606 is a reply to message #13556] |
Sun, 22 April 2018 15:29  |
kingx025
Messages: 95
Registered: August 2016
Location: Minneapolis. Minnesota
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While the variable on drinking water is a standard variable in terms of having a standard name, the response categories are survey-specific and vary widely across samples, including across different years for the same country. In IPUMS-DHS, we created a single variable to cover the drinking water information, where the same code means the same thing across all surveys, and we had to create a 4-digit variable to retain all detail across surveys. The first digit identifies broad categories that the researcher might combine, while the second, third, and fourth digit provide additional detail, as shown here:
https://www.idhsdata.org/idhs-action/variables/HV201#codes_s ection
This variable is based on the household variable for drinking water (HV201), and we link the household and woman's files to the children (KR) and birth (BR) files in IPUMS-DHS, so this is the drinking water variable for the KR (child) cases in IPUMS-DHS.
Miriam King
Dr. Miriam King
IPUMS-DHS Project Manager (www.idhsdata.org)
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