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Child care seeking by sex [message #3034] Mon, 06 October 2014 12:13 Go to next message
lucianabrondi is currently offline  lucianabrondi
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I would like to look at the number of boys versus girls taken to a private doctor in Bangladesh but also would like to add to this analysis the women's education level and other household variables(wealth index). How can I merge all this information.? Some of the DHS variables seem to appear in the household and in the woman's questionnaire.

Luciana Brondi
CPHS, University of Edinburgh
Re: Child care seeking by sex [message #3046 is a reply to message #3034] Tue, 07 October 2014 10:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  Trevor-DHS
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You will probably find the children's recode (KR) file will be the most useful for you. Here you can find information about the sources of treatment for children for fever, cough , and diarrhea, including whether they went to a private doctor (h32l, h12l) . You will also find information on the sex of the child (b4), the education of the mother (v106), and the household wealth index (v190). You won't need to do any merging to use this file.

If you do find you need to merge files, please see http://dhsprogram.com/data/Merging-Datasets.cfm
Re: Child care seeking by sex [message #3048 is a reply to message #3046] Tue, 07 October 2014 11:38 Go to previous message
lucianabrondi is currently offline  lucianabrondi
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Thanks, Trevor, I will look in more detail and hopefully will be able to do that.
Luciana


Luciana Brondi
CPHS, University of Edinburgh
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