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Unmet Need [message #137]

Tue, 19 March 2013 02:12

waltine
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Registered: March 2013
Location: South Africa

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Hello all,

how can unmet need be calculated using the DHS.

Cheers.

waltine

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Re: Unmet Need [message #150 is a reply to message #137]

Tue, 19 March 2013 07:31

maqsood2153
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Registered: March 2013
Location: Pakistan

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DHS female file has two variables

v624 -- unmet need
v626 -- unmet need (definition 2)

These two variable may be used to compute unmet need

Maqsood Sadiq

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Re: Unmet Need [message #154 is a reply to message #150]

Tue, 19 March 2013 10:12

Kerry
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Registered: March 2013

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Actually, the definition and accompanying algorithm for calculating unmet need has changed recently. Please see this post in the Reproductive Health forum, which explains a bit more: http://userforum.measuredhs.com/index.php?t=msg&goto=18& amp;#msg_18

The revisions were made to simplify the calculation of unmet need, and make the unmet need indicators more comparable across countries and survey years.

The NEW unmet need variable that corresponds with this revised definition is v626a (definition 3), not v626, and can be found in the more recent DHS datasets (it still may need to be calculated in some older datasets). v626 refers to the older definition of unmet need. The new definition of unmet need is also used to produce that indicator in Statcompiler for all surveys.

Hope this helps!

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Re: Unmet Need [message #159 is a reply to message #154]

Tue, 19 March 2013 17:42

Trevor-DHS
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Registered: January 2013

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The web page http://www.measuredhs.com/topics/Unmet-Need.cfm also includes links to code in SPSS and Stata for calculating the new revised definition of unmet need (v626a) for older surveys. There are two sets of code - one for the general definition of unmet need, and one that contains the survey-specific logic needed to handle survey-specific differences for older surveys.

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