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Re: District Codes in recode files [message #1226 is a reply to message #1218] Fri, 24 January 2014 10:51 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Hello Yashin,

It is true that some DHS surveys are designed to give representative results at two levels. This is not the case for any of the Mozambique DHS or AIS surveys which are all representative at the level of the province (1st administrative level). However, if you have a polygon shapefile of the district you are looking at, you can request the GPS datasets for the 2011 DHS and 2009 AIS and do a spatial join as described above to find out which, if any, clusters were located in Nacala a Velha. Do bear in mind though that the samples were not designed to give representative results at that level.

The displacement of the cluster coordinates was restricted to the DHS region (province) for the Mozambique 2009 AIS and to the district (admin2) for the 2011 DHS.

In general, a good way to find out the level at which a given survey's results are representative is to look it up in the boundaries page of the Spatial Data Repository http://spatialdata.measuredhs.com/boundaries.html. You may also download a GIS shapefile of the boundaries from the Spatial Data Repository.

Hope this helps
 
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