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Reclassifying admin areas [message #29053]

Wed, 17 April 2024 17:03

Wolf
Messages: 2
Registered: June 2022

Member

I am pooling 6 DHS surveys in Bangladesh together. In order to do this, I must harmonize some variables, including adminastrative areas (Divisions), as the number of Divisions have changed over time (in 1999, there were 5, now there are 8).

I have plotted the GPS coordinates of the PSUs onto a map, with the current (8) Division boundaries, and classified each PSU based on which Division the clusters falls within.

The question I have is, do you think this is a problem for survey weights in the pooled dataset?

These changes will not impact the 2017/18 survey as it was conducted after the boundaries were redrawn, but it will impact earlier surveys, particularly the 1999/2000 survey which at the time it was conducted, only had 5 admin areas.

Thanks in advance!

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Forum: Reproductive Health

Topic: Cervical cancer

Cervical cancer [message #29036]

Sun, 14 April 2024 18:16

Nellymaina
Messages: 1
Registered: April 2024

Member

I am interested in looking at cervical cancer and HIV in Gabon. I see eight questions on the IR dataset on cancer: s1327,s1326,s1328,s1316,s1329,s1324,s1323, and s1315. I have checked the dhsVII and the corresponding recode manual, and I do not see the survey questions used to collect the data. any help to locate these would be highly appreciated.

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Forum: Child Health

Topic: Child vaccination

Child vaccination [message #29040]

Wed, 17 April 2024 00:24

shruti.acharya
Messages: 3
Registered: September 2023

Member

I am new to NFHS data as well as STATA. I am trying to understand the association of socio-demographic factors with childhood immunization status (which in my case is a categorical outcome with 3 categories). I am using multinomial logistic regression on STATA using the following code :
mlogit vacc_status(i.sex i.birth_order) (i.Wealth i.religion i.caste i.household_size i.v106) (i.media_exposure i.age_firstbirth )

I have recoded the variables for better identification. I wanted to know if I need to use the "svyset linearized" everytime I run my regression on STATA, and also whether I am doing it correctly.

Thanks in advance !

S Acharya

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Forum: Nutrition and Anthropometry

Topic: Stunting Data in 2022 Philippines DHS?

Stunting Data in 2022 Philippines DHS? [message #29035]

Sun, 14 April 2024 00:56

ArinK
Messages: 1
Registered: April 2024

Member

The variables connected to stunting all appear to be missing all values in the 2022 PHL dataset.
I'm using the Household Members folder and looking for relevant variable - they are all there, but empty. Was there an issue during data collection, or am I doing something wrong here? I've checked the other data files from this survey too and same issue for relevant variables.

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