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Re: Calculating stillbirth using Ethiopia DHS 2000 [message #9933 is a reply to message #9927] Mon, 06 June 2016 22:19 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Sami is currently offline  Sami
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Registered: May 2016
Location: Nepal
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Dear Trevor,

Thank you so much for getting back to me.

I used the code you gave me which was used for Nepal DHS 2001 data file.

I have couple of issues here:

1. EDHS 2000 do not have variable such as s216 which was used to calculate stillbirth for 2001 Nepal DHS.
2. After reshaping, i used idx92_==. to drop empty entries that contain no data but it gives me total number of live births in five years preceding the survey rather than total number of pregnancies five years proceeding the survey.

I would like to share the code i used which was initially made by you for Nepal DHS 2001. Unfortunately it did not work.

Can you please advise what wrong did i do to calculate stillbirth using EDHS 2000 IR data file?

use "C:\Data\DHS_Stata\ETIR41FL.DTA" , clear


keep caseid v001 v002 v003 v005 v008 v011 v013 v017 v018 v019 v021 v022 v023 s231c_* s231ac_* g231ac_* bidx_* bord_* idx92_* idx94_* v* b0_* b1_* b2_* b3_* b4_* b5_* b6_* b7_* b8_* b9_* b10_* b11_* b12_* b13_* b15_* b16_* scol24_* s230amg s230ayg s231ac_* g231am_* s231am_*

rename *_0* *_*

reshape long idx92_ idx94_ bord_ bidx_ b0_ b1_ b2_ b3_ b4_ b5_ b6_ b7_ b8_ b9_ b10_ b11_ b12_ b13_ b15_ b16_ s231ac_ s231c_ g231ac_ scol24_ g231am_ s231am_, i(caseid) j(i)

drop if idx92_==.


rename idx92_ idx
rename s*_ s*
rename b* p*

keep if p3 > v008-60|s231ac> v008-60


keep if s231c==.|s231c>=7
tab type [iw=v005/1000000]

Thank you so much.

Yours sincerely

Sammy


 
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