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Merging CR and KR (BR) files [message #25794] Sun, 11 December 2022 20:46 Go to next message
salome is currently offline  salome
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Hello

Thank you in advance for your help with this.
I am pooling multiple surveys together. My unit of analysis is a"couple". I am hoping to identify the LAST birth for the women in the pair and merge this birth to her "couple's" information. To do so I have a) subsetted the KR file to midx = 1 (last birth index). b) merged the dataset from "a" to the CR based on v001, v002, v003 for each survey of interest. Essentially my "base" is a couple (CR) since I am interested in the last birth.

I wanted to confirm that this is correct. Many thanks for your feedback.
Kindly,
S
Re: Merging CR and KR (BR) files [message #25797 is a reply to message #25794] Mon, 12 December 2022 07:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:

Yes, that approach is correct. For the India surveys you need to include v024 in the ID.

Re: Merging CR and KR (BR) files [message #25798 is a reply to message #25797] Mon, 12 December 2022 08:09 Go to previous message
salome is currently offline  salome
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Thank you so much for your quick response!

Have a good week!

S
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