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Re: Age in months or years? [message #2887 is a reply to message #2865]

Sat, 06 September 2014 16:59

Trevor-DHS
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The two variables contain essentially the same information, one is age in months (HW1) and the other is age in years (B8) - try crosstabulating them and you will see that. You can use whichever is more useful for your analysis.

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		Age in months or years? By: pankhurim on Wed, 03 September 2014 21:20
		Re: Age in months or years? By: Trevor-DHS on Sat, 06 September 2014 16:59
		Re: Age in months or years? By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sat, 06 September 2014 17:30
		Re: Age in months or years? By: pankhurim on Sun, 07 September 2014 13:40

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