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Re: Calculating fertility rates [message #4436 is a reply to message #4434] Tue, 26 May 2015 14:34 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
schoumaker is currently offline  schoumaker
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Hi,

have you used the individual recode data file (KEIR52FL)?

This is the result I get when running tfr2 with that file - and they match perfectly the rates published in the Kenya report (p.47).

Best,

Bruno

. tfr2
weight variable is v005
Preparing table of events and exposure for 3 year(s) preceding the survey
Period covered: 12/2005 to 11/2008
Central date is 2007.4636
Number of cases (women): 8421
Number of person-years (weighted): 23658.801
Number of events (weighted): 3609.3125

ASFRs - TFR


events Coef. Std. Err. z P>z [95% Conf. Interval]

Rate_1519 .1029641 .0043925 23.44 0.000 .0943549 .1115733
Rate_2024 .2378978 .007007 33.95 0.000 .2241644 .2516313
Rate_2529 .2155345 .0071216 30.26 0.000 .2015764 .2294926
Rate_3034 .1751397 .0073817 23.73 0.000 .1606718 .1896076
Rate_3539 .1178257 .0068037 17.32 0.000 .1044907 .1311607
Rate_4044 .0504861 .004728 10.68 0.000 .0412194 .0597528
Rate_4549 .011841 .0031293 3.78 0.000 .0057076 .0179743
TFR 4.558445 .0793782 57.43 0.000 4.402866 4.714023





Bruno Schoumaker
Centre for Demographic Research
Université catholique de Louvain
 
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