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Calculating for children less than 23 months [message #9260]

Sun, 28 February 2016 16:57

tony
Messages: 10
Registered: March 2013
Location: Ghana

Member

Daer all,

I'm trying to calculate for the number of youngest child under two years living with their mother. But the figures I get do not correspond with those in the report; thus Table 11.3: Breastfeeding status by age. I am using the children file of Ghana DHS 2014. Any help. Thanks.

Below is the Stata code I used.

clear
keep if midx==1&b9==0&hw1<24
tab hw1
recode hw1(0/1=1 "0-1")(2/3=2 "2-3")(4/5=3 "4-5")(6/8=4 "6-8")(9/11=5 "9-11")(12/17=6 "12-17")(18/23=7 "18-23")(24/59=.), gen(child_age)
tab child_age
tab child_age[w=v005]

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Re: Calculating for children less than 23 months [message #9295 is a reply to message #9260]

Sat, 05 March 2016 01:36

Trevor-DHS
Messages: 805
Registered: January 2013

Senior Member

Here is code for selecting the children to include. Two important differences with your code:
1) hw1 is not available for all children in this survey, I believe because anthropometry was collected in a subsample of households. It is generally better to calculate age in months using v008-b3.
2) The youngest child under age 2 living with the mother is not always the child with midx=1 (the last child born). It can be that the last child born either died or does not live with the monther, but the next to last child fits the criteria.

use "C:\Data\DHS_Stata\GHKR70FL.DTA", clear
gen age = v008-b3

* select on the living children under 2
keep if age<24 & b5==1

* regroup age
recode age(0/1=1 "0-1")(2/3=2 "2-3")(4/5=3 "4-5")(6/8=4 "6-8")(9/11=5 "9-11")(12/17=6 "12-17")(18/23=7 "18-23")(24/59=.), gen(child_age)

* tabulate for the last column in table 11.3
tab child_age
tab child_age[iw=v005/1000000]

* Now restrict further
* Keep only those living with their mother
keep if b9==0
* and now check if it is the youngest
* children are in order with youngest first, any other child with the same caseid is not the youngest
drop if _n > 0 & caseid == caseid[_n-1]

* tabulate for the number of youngest children under age 2 living with mother
tab child_age
tab child_age[iw=v005/1000000]

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Re: Calculating for children less than 23 months [message #9307 is a reply to message #9295]

Tue, 08 March 2016 09:01

tony
Messages: 10
Registered: March 2013
Location: Ghana

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Thank you Trevor.

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Re: Calculating for children less than 23 months [message #9369 is a reply to message #9295]

Mon, 21 March 2016 07:13

tony
Messages: 10
Registered: March 2013
Location: Ghana

Member

Dear Trevor,

Please, from the previous response (on calculating child age), I tried to get exclusively breastfed children but my figures were different from the report. Any help on what I did not do right?

Thus after running the commands for children ages (0-23m), I followed that with:

*The number of times the children received anything to eat
///aside from breast milk, including both meals and snacks///
//Children who are being exclusively breastfed are coded 0
tab m39

*Recoding m39 to get exclusively breastfed and not exclusively breastfed
recode m39(0=0 "excl")(1/8=1 "no_excl"), gen(excl_brst)
tab excl_brst

*adding sample weight
tab excl_brst [iw=v005/1000000]

*crosstab with children (0-23m)
tab child_age excl_brst
tab child_age excl_brst, row nofreq
tab child_age excl_brst [iw=v005/1000000], row nofreq

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