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Maternal age at first birth [message #2728] Sat, 16 August 2014 04:17 Go to previous message
methodkazaura@yahoo.no is currently offline  methodkazaura@yahoo.no
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Registered: July 2014
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I am trying to establish the time trends of child mortality (infant and child) among first born in Tanzania.

Why do I find differences in value between:

(a) A variable indicating 'maternal age at first birth' (directly from the data set: (V212) AND
(b) Year the first child were born - Year the mother was born) (B2$01-V010) = Age of the mother at first birth

Then, what is the 'near' correct age at birth of the 'FIRST BORN'?

Also, aiming to use first born,I think BIDX$01 refers to the FIRST birth and BORDX$01 is similar to BIDX0$? (in the reverse order).

So, looking for the first birth, I should concentrate preferably with BIDX$01. Am I correct??

Method
 
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