| Children's nutritional outcomes and father's characteristics [message #27970] |
Fri, 27 October 2023 12:25  |
fraeus
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Registered: February 2023
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Hi All. I am wowrking on the attached code. I am analsying nutritional outcomes for children, so stunting, wasting, and underweight. However, when I restrict the sample to only those children eligible for these measurement and I try to check some characteristics of the father (for example land ownership), I only see missing values. The same does not happen for other rounds of the DHS. Do you know why? Is there any non-random choice behind this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thank you
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| Re: Children's nutritional outcomes and father's characteristics [message #28007 is a reply to message #28005] |
Wed, 01 November 2023 12:14  |
fraeus
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Registered: February 2023
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Hi Janet, thank you for your reply. Actually I was using 2010, 2014, and 2019. I lose the fathers on the 2014 and not on the other years with the same code, but reading from the report I noticed that differently from 2010 and 2019, in 2014 they check those children's nutritional indicators in the half sample with women only. Can you confirm that? So, by default, I cannot have information on fathers land ownership, because their information is in the other half of the sample, where children have not been measured in terms of Height-for-weight etc.
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| Re: Children's nutritional outcomes and father's characteristics [message #28010 is a reply to message #28005] |
Wed, 01 November 2023 14:19 |
Janet-DHS
Messages: 698
Registered: April 2022
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Following is a response from DHS staff member, Tom Pullum:
I just ran the program you are using and it works fine. (However, I don't know if your interest is in the Rwanda 2010 survey. I used that survey as a test.) In the program you will find the following lines:
* Copy of the PR file for children
use PR.dta, clear
keep if hv105<=17
keep hv*
If your interest is in wasting, etc., then you need to include hc70, hc71, and hc72 in the "keep hv*" line. You would construct the anthropometry indicators from hc70-hc72. The code for those indicators is elsewhere on the forum. They apply only to children age 0-4, but you don't need to change the selection on hv105.
Please actually try to run the program, on whatever survey you are working with. You will have to change the path to the data (see "scalar spath= ..."). Please let us know if you have other questions.
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| Re: Children's nutritional outcomes and father's characteristics [message #28036 is a reply to message #28028] |
Fri, 03 November 2023 12:10 |
fraeus
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Registered: February 2023
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I understand, thank you so much. Let's consider 2010. My merged file has as unit of analysis children. If I want to run some descriptive statistics for their mothers and fathers, without counting twice a mother or father of two children, how can I do?
For example, I want to do tab v745b and tab mv745b, so I want to check the percentage of parents owing land alone, jointly, or both. But, if a mother has two children, I will have two lines in the dataset for the same mother (child 1 and child2), that will be counted as twice in my tab v745b. Any suggestions on that?
thank you so much
Best,
Francesca
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