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Tetanus injections before birth description [message #26841] Mon, 08 May 2023 16:01 Go to next message
vivek is currently offline  vivek
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Respected Sir/ Madam,
I, Dr. Vivek Verma, am a faculty in Dept. of Statistics, Assam Univ., Assam, India. For one of my
research works, I am using the DHS data (NFHS-4) of India women (IAKR71FL)-2015-16, where the variable M1 denoting "Number of tetanus injections before birth" is ranging from -11 to 11 (attached image). Could you please explain the meaning of negative Number of tetanus injections before birth.

This will of great help for me.

Thanks and Regards,
Dr. Vivek Verma
Email: viv_verma456@yahoo.com
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Vivek Verma
Dept. Of Statistics,
Gauhati University,
Guwahati,
Assam-781014
India
Re: Tetanus injections before birth description [message #26852 is a reply to message #26841] Wed, 10 May 2023 09:23 Go to previous message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
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Following is a response from Senior DHS staff member, Fred Arnold:

The early files from that survey had some errors. We are now on version 4. When I open IAKR74FL.dta, I get a much more plausible distribution of m1. It must have been one of the variables that was corrected. You should be able to access the "74" versions of the files from the website.

Sorry about the inconvenience and thanks for using DHS data.

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