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Mon, 06 June 2022 10:00

Shireen-DHS
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Registered: August 2020
Location: USA

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Dear Adis,

Although I am not familiar with this indicator, I don't believe you need to drop any children. The vaccination variables are binary variables with zeros and ones so we know who did not get the vaccine.

After running the correct do file (CH_VAC.do) and selecting live children from the correct age group as you have done, you can use the following variables for the calculation in the formula you show:

gen penta= ((ch_pent1_either - ch_pent3_either)/ch_pent1_either)*100
gen measles= ((ch_pent1_either-ch_meas_either)/ch_pent1_either)*100

This gives an unweighted number of children of 727 which is the number of children that had the dpt1 (ch_pent1_either) vaccine.

For your question on the number of children, you need to apply sample weights to get the correct number. This is for all estimates including the above. To do this you first calculate the weight variable as follows:

gen wt=v005/1000000

Then apply it to your tabulations, all tabulations:
*this gives the weighted number of 1028
tab b5 [iw=wt]

*this gives the weighted number of 785
tab penta [iw=wt]

Thank you.

Best,
Shireen Assaf
The DHS Program

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[Message index]

		child immunization By: adis on Thu, 05 May 2022 15:46
		Re: child immunization By: Janet-DHS on Tue, 10 May 2022 10:22
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Thu, 19 May 2022 09:48
		Re: child immunization By: Janet-DHS on Fri, 20 May 2022 15:45
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Fri, 20 May 2022 16:49
		Re: child immunization By: Janet-DHS on Wed, 25 May 2022 11:53
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Tue, 31 May 2022 10:46
		Re: child immunization By: Janet-DHS on Wed, 01 June 2022 09:04
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Wed, 01 June 2022 11:07
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Fri, 03 June 2022 09:23
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Fri, 03 June 2022 15:52
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Sat, 04 June 2022 15:59
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Mon, 06 June 2022 10:00
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Mon, 06 June 2022 11:30
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Mon, 06 June 2022 11:32
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Mon, 06 June 2022 11:39
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Mon, 06 June 2022 12:29
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Mon, 06 June 2022 13:30
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Mon, 06 June 2022 13:41
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Mon, 06 June 2022 13:53
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Tue, 07 June 2022 14:46
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Tue, 07 June 2022 15:22
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Wed, 08 June 2022 11:13
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Wed, 08 June 2022 11:30
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Wed, 08 June 2022 11:39
		Re: child immunization By: adis on Thu, 09 June 2022 08:10
		Re: child immunization By: Shireen-DHS on Thu, 09 June 2022 09:16
		Re: child immunization By: coldbluts on Fri, 12 April 2024 07:19
		Re: child immunization By: Janet-DHS on Thu, 18 April 2024 16:28

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