| Linking GPS data to DHS data files [message #12910] |
Sat, 05 August 2017 13:33  |
davidk35
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Registered: August 2017
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Hi everyone,
I am currently creating a panel dataset for African countries, which uses years and administrative regions at the first level (as given by gadmn) as the units of analysis.
As I would like to compute for example the share of young men (15-24) to the adult population (e.g. until 54) in a specific region and year, I need to assign each cluster mapped by the GPS file to the corresponing cluster in the DHS file (e.g. GNGE52FL and GNMR52DT).
I thought I could do this by the DHSID but it turns out that the DHSID is not equivalent to any combination of variables in the DHS file (e.g. I thought of creating a string in STATA with the code egen = concat (mv000 mv007 mv001) to create the DHSID, but the result is not eqivalent to the DHSID in the GPS-file wich is GN20050000001 for the first cluster for example).
therefore my question would be how to match/merge the DHS-file with the GPS-file such that I can do regional analysis using the clusters in this region for a given (survey) year?
Thank you very much for your help in advance.
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