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Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets [message #19105 is a reply to message #17676]

Tue, 21 April 2020 16:19

kbhan89
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Hi,

Sorry to bring up this issue again.

I'm currently working on the 2016 Ethiopia DHS data. I have deliberately read the discussions seen above and the recode documentation.
However, I still have some issues making me confused. I would be grateful if you could help me clarify the following points.

1) I wonder if v009 (respondent's month of birth) has already been converted to the Gregorian calendar or not. If I understood the recode and documentation the discussions above correctly, v009 should be the one based on the Ethiopian calendar since the information on a respondent's day of birth was not collected and then precise conversion cannot be done. If I compute v011 (date of birth - cmc) manually using v009 (respondent's month of birth) and v010 (respondent's year of birth - based on the Ethiopian calendar), I can get the same values of v011 in the dataset, leading me to guess that v009 is also from the Ethiopian calendar.

2) Thanks to the clear explanations done above, I have understood that b1(month of birth) has already been converted to the Gregorian calendar while b2(year of birth) has not. Then, could you let me know how b3 (date of birth - cmc) was computed? If I do the same computation as I did for v011 (i.e. b3=(b2-1900)*12+b1), I get the same values of b3 in the dataset. Does it mean that these cmc values are coming from the months by the Gregorian calendar and the years by the Ethiopian one? I need to convert b2 to the Gregorian one by using b3, but the values of b3 in the data file are a little confusing to me.

I might be missing something important. Please correct me if I have made wrong points.

Thank you very much for your help in advance.

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		Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: DHS user on Wed, 20 February 2013 11:19
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 20 February 2013 11:28
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: lillo?S on Fri, 22 January 2016 12:02
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: lillo?S on Fri, 22 January 2016 12:04
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 29 January 2016 12:56
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: st89 on Fri, 19 February 2016 10:12
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Fri, 19 February 2016 12:02
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Fri, 17 November 2017 12:39
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 18 December 2017 12:26
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Mon, 18 December 2017 13:21
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 18 December 2017 17:15
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 19 December 2017 14:31
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Tue, 19 December 2017 14:50
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 19 December 2017 16:31
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Tue, 19 December 2017 17:03
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Tue, 05 February 2019 10:36
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Tue, 05 February 2019 10:48
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Tue, 05 February 2019 12:14
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 08:05
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:01
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:03
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:09
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:15
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kcaglaya@tulane.edu on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:21
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Ogriv on Wed, 06 February 2019 09:26
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: VictorJanVilla on Tue, 07 March 2023 13:36
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Tue, 07 March 2023 16:05
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Mark on Wed, 01 May 2019 01:56
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: Bridgette-DHS on Mon, 06 May 2019 07:55
		Re: Problem with dates in the Ethiopia datasets By: kbhan89 on Tue, 21 April 2020 16:19
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