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Re: Understanding variables with _01, _02, etc. [message #9906 is a reply to message #9905]

Sun, 05 June 2016 19:30

Reduced-For(u)m
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Looking at the documentation, it does appear that each _X is the variable for person X. So the question about bed nets is asked for each member of the household, and there can be up to 24 members (joint families can get large). The members are listed in an order described in HMHIDX.

See page 28 here: http://www.dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/DHSG4/Recode6_DHS_22March 2013_DHSG4.pdf

It sounds like you just want to know whether "anyone" in the household slept under a bednet? You could then generate a new variable that equals 1 if any of the HML32_X variables are "yes" and 0 otherwise...or however you want to define that.

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		Understanding variables with _01, _02, etc. By: SonjaMM on Sat, 04 June 2016 18:11
		Re: Understanding variables with _01, _02, etc. By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sat, 04 June 2016 18:19
		Re: Understanding variables with _01, _02, etc. By: SonjaMM on Sat, 04 June 2016 18:30
		Re: Understanding variables with _01, _02, etc. By: Reduced-For(u)m on Sun, 05 June 2016 19:30

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