| Timeliness of measles vaccination [message #10224] | 
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						nkanagat
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		Hello, 
 
I am trying to calculate the timeliness of the measles vaccination in Tanzania from the DHS 2010 dataset, KR file. I need to calculate whether the measles vaccine was given early (before 9 months) on time (9 months) or late (after 9 months).  
 
I have set up the following code: 
 
**Healthcard 
gen healthcard=. 
replace healthcard = 1 if h1 == 1 
replace healthcard = 0 if inlist(h1, 0, 2, 3) 
replace healthcard = . if h1 == 9 
 
*generate age of each child in months 
g age=v008-b3 
g wgt=v005/1000000 
 
ta age if age>=12 & age<=23 & b5==1 [iw=wgt] 
 
**Measles 
recode h9 (0 2 3 8 9=0 "no") (1=1 "yes"), g(measles) 
ta measles if age>=12 & age<=23 & b5==1 [iw=wgt] 
 
**Timeliness by month 
recode h9m ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7=0 "early") (9=1 "timely") (10 11 12=2 "late"), g (timely) 
ta measles timely 
 
 
In order to examine the timeliness of measles, is this the best way to set up my variables in stata?   
 
Thank you, 
Natasha 
 
		
		
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