The DHS Program User Forum
Discussions regarding The DHS Program data and results
Home » Data » Weighting data » Colombia DHS 2015
Colombia DHS 2015 [message #14394] Mon, 02 April 2018 15:54 Go to next message
antrabhatt is currently offline  antrabhatt
Messages: 4
Registered: April 2018
Location: NY
Member
Hi there,

I am trying to do some analysis by comparing men and women in Colombia for which I have appended the IR file to the MR file. However, the variable v131/mv131 which represents ethnicity seems to have no observations in the MR file. Has anyone else faced this problem? Is there another way to approximate ethnicity for men?

[Updated on: Mon, 02 April 2018 15:54]

Report message to a moderator

Re: Colombia DHS 2015 [message #14399 is a reply to message #14394] Tue, 03 April 2018 13:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bridgette-DHS is currently offline  Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3017
Registered: February 2013
Senior Member
Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

In the IR file, 86% of women (weighted) have "None of the above" for v131. There is not a great deal of ethnic diversity, except in Pacifica (v024=4). As a first approximation, if there are IR cases in the same household as an MR case, you could impute the man's ethnicity to be the same. However, this is definitely not reliable. Perhaps other users will have suggestions.

Re: Colombia DHS 2015 [message #14400 is a reply to message #14399] Tue, 03 April 2018 13:35 Go to previous message
antrabhatt is currently offline  antrabhatt
Messages: 4
Registered: April 2018
Location: NY
Member
Thanks so much! Looks like that is the only plausible solution
Previous Topic: Variable for weighting
Next Topic: Components of ANC
Goto Forum:
  


Current Time: Fri Mar 29 05:05:22 Coordinated Universal Time 2024