Selecting one child per mother [message #16448] |
Wed, 16 January 2019 11:54 ![Go to next message Go to previous message](/theme/default/images/down.png) |
caroline.mckenna
Messages: 1 Registered: January 2019
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Hello,
I am an undergraduate student investigating the association between women's decision-making variables (participation in decisions regarding spending income, her healthcare, major household purchases, visits to family and relatives) and stunting and wasting in her children under five. I am using the 2013-14 Democratic Republic of the Congo DHS.
I already created dichotomous variables for "Stunting Status" where HAZ< -2 SD and "Wasting Status" where WHZ < -2 SD according to WHO child growth standards. I currently have the child data set with linked mothers, but the problem is that the mothers are duplicated if they have several children (ex if a mother has 6 children, her data is counted 6 times). Now, I would like to randomly select one child per mother to create "mother-child pairs." Specifically, I would like to classify a mother-child pair as "exposed/malnourished" if the mother has at least one child who is stunted/wasted. How would I do this?
Thanks!
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