| Re: not in the universe [message #15803 is a reply to message #15802] |
Mon, 17 September 2018 17:32  |
kingx025
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Registered: August 2016
Location: Minneapolis. Minnesota
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Can you please supply some more information, Sarah? By "the children's file for Kenya in 2014," I assume you mean source data from the KR file for Kenya 2014. I see a total of only 20,964 children in the KR file for Kenya 2014. Can you double-check which files are involved and state which variables you are interested in?
Here's an example of a universe for a child biometric variable for Kenya 2014 (data from the KR file):
Kenya 2014: Surviving children under age 5 who were measured as household members and whose co-resident mother was a female survey respondent age 15-49. (Taken from the universe statement for HW2)
I'm not sure what you mean by "the best protocol to handle this." I think you just need to acknowledge which children are included in your analysis; there is nothing you can do to adjust for children who are dead or not measured, for example.
Miriam
Dr. Miriam King
IPUMS-DHS Project Manager (www.idhsdata.org)
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