The DHS Program User Forum: Child Health

Home » Topics » Child Health » Birth Weight (Recoding Birth Weight Variable)

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Birth Weight [message #25722]

Wed, 30 November 2022 22:03

Aamna
Messages: 11
Registered: May 2019

Member

Hello,

I am working on the Pakistan dataset (2017-2018). I am working on women's dataset (IR). I am examining children's birth weight (low) and antenatal care visits (outcomes) in one paper. I want to create a new variable for children's birth weight (m19_1 to m19_6). I want to have one birth weight variable (continuous) for all children mentioned in these six variables (m19_1 to m19_6).
Is it possible to create one variable, or do I need to work separately on the KR file for this purpose? The issue comes when the number of observations for IR and KR differs after I drop women with no birth (v208). I am not sure that I can have two different numbers of observations in one paper...
Can someone help me with coding if it is possible to create 1 variable out of these 6 variables because I am only getting error messages on my tries?
I appreciate the help.

Aamna

Report message to a moderator

[Message index]

		Birth Weight By: Aamna on Wed, 30 November 2022 22:03
		Re: Birth Weight By: Janet-DHS on Tue, 06 December 2022 09:01

Previous Topic:	selecting variables
Next Topic:	How to Merged HR dataset and KR dataset

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

] [

]

Current Time: Thu Jan 2 23:48:52 Coordinated Universal Time 2025