mege databases of multiple countries over several years [message #20483] |
Tue, 10 November 2020 10:12 |
Tedy
Messages: 14 Registered: July 2020
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Good evening dear DHS database experts. I am once again asking for your help in merging the databases. I am working on the effect of parental substance use on the health of their children under 5 years old. I am not familiar with stata, and i would like to merge the databases of multiple countries over several years for children under 5 years old containing information from their parents (father and/or mother), their household and the family structure (single or two-parent).
thank you in advance
sincerely
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Re: mege databases of multiple countries over several years [message #20487 is a reply to message #20486] |
Wed, 11 November 2020 10:53 |
Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3203 Registered: February 2013
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Following is another response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:
I suggest that you first select just one of these Cameroon surveys and try to identify a relationship between the predictors of interest (tobacco use, etc.) and the outcomes (stunting, underweight, wasted), including controls for other known predictors of the outcomes. You can do most of this with just the KR file, for children who are living with the mother (b9=0). Linking the child with the father in the MR file is not trivial. Stata code for stunting, etc. is available on the website (see the GitHub link). Good luck....
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