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Re: Calculating cases for IYCF [message #15198 is a reply to message #15172] Fri, 15 June 2018 06:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Following is a response from Senior Data Processing Specialist, Ladys Ortiz:

The main difficulty with this table is identifying the last child living with the mother. There are very few cases where the youngest child under age 2 is not leaving with their mother. Those few cases are the ones preventing you to match your number with table 11.3. If the youngest child (MIDX=1) is not leaving with the mother or is not alive, we should check if the next to last child (MIDX=2) is alive and living with the mother and so on.

I'm attaching the SPSS syntax and the output for table 11.3 (the % using bottle with nipple is not included in this syntax).
These are the steps I follow to identify the last child alive and living with the mother:

a) I used the women data file (IR) identify the last child living with the mother
b) I create a small data file with the mother id variables + the flag variable
c) I merge the file in point b) with the children data file (KR).
d) Select children alive and age = 0-23 month
e) Create my variables and do table
 
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