Infant and child mortality [message #3085] |
Mon, 13 October 2014 14:38 |
jacobm
Messages: 4 Registered: October 2014 Location: Polokwane
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Good evening
I am using the Angola Malaria Indicator Survey (AMIS) 2011 to study socio-economic factors contributing to infant and child mortality in Angola. I need to find out the following:
1. Can this survey (AMIS 2011) accurately measure infant and child mortality for the country or is it (its sample) only focusing on malaria-related cases?
2. Secondly, the infant and child mortality levels (per 1000) from my descriptive results are different from the ones in the AMIS 2011 report. What could be causing this?
Regards,
Jacob
JacobM
Wits University
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Re: Infant and child mortality [message #3099 is a reply to message #3091] |
Wed, 15 October 2014 10:25 |
jacobm
Messages: 4 Registered: October 2014 Location: Polokwane
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Good day
Thank you very much for the information and response.
When I did the frequencies for variable 'child', I get ages from 0-4 years for current at of child and 1 - 59 months for age at death - months imputed. Can't these then be used/grouped into infants (0 years - current age and 1-11 age at death - months imputed) and children (1-4 years-current age and 12-59 months - age at death- months imputed)?
The above is the process I have followed to formulate and compute infant and child mortality using this data-set and ended up with very high infant mortality levels (e.g 192 per 1000) and very low child mortality levels (e.g 25 per 1000). The question raised was that 'what caused the sharp instant increase in death just from 12 months and higher in Angola?'. Again the AMIS 2011 report had presented both infant and child mortality levels.
Regards,
Jacob
JacobM
Wits University
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Re: Infant and child mortality [message #3588 is a reply to message #3102] |
Wed, 14 January 2015 00:59 |
jacobm
Messages: 4 Registered: October 2014 Location: Polokwane
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Morning
I am requesting a step-by-step STATA Do-file on how to compute infant and child mortality rates.
I have went through the discussions/explanations made on the DHS forum but (being a beginner on analysis) I am still struggling to use the information successfully. I have also familiarised myself with the procedures as stated in the Guide to DHS Statistics (pp 90-94).
Please email the do file directly to my email address: jacobm@statssa.gov.za
JacobM
Wits University
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