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Phase for survey and recode not the same [message #14350] Mon, 26 March 2018 20:07 Go to next message
cportner is currently offline  cportner
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Hello,

I was wondering why the name of some surveys indicates that they belong to one phase number, but the recode number is different? For example, the 1997 Senegal DHS is listed (and named) as phase III, but the recode is phase II. I was using the file names to automatically select which variables are kept, but that approach does not work if the phase number and recode numbers are not the same.

If the file names do not reflect the phase format that the data are in, that might be worthwhile highlighting on the page describing the naming system.

All the best,

Claus
Re: Phase for survey and recode not the same [message #14356 is a reply to message #14350] Tue, 27 March 2018 07:19 Go to previous message
Bridgette-DHS is currently online  Bridgette-DHS
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The phase is the contract/round under which the survey was collected (currently DHS I through DHS VII).

The recode number does not identify the phase. It's the "data structure" that was used for the recoding of the survey (currently Recode 1 through Recode VII).

Also, see variables: HV000/V000/MV000: The 1st 2 characters are an alphabetic country code and the third character indicates the format/structure of the recode data file.

[Updated on: Tue, 27 March 2018 07:33]

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