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			| Append IPUMS_Merge to DHS Data [message #17804] | Wed, 05 June 2019 19:50  |  
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					|  Yawo Messages: 45
 Registered: February 2019
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	| Hello, Thanks for your recent updates re IPUMS. I have a question about linking merged data produced by IMPUMS to similar dataset from the DHS (cross-posted on IPUMS forum on IDHS site).
 
 I am examining HIV risk behaviors in sub-Saharan Africa, and will be using data from the following countries:
 
 Angola
 Benin
 Burkina Faso
 Burundi
 Cameroon
 Chad
 Congo
 Congo Democratic Republic
 Cote d'Ivoire
 Eswatini
 Ethiopia
 Gabon
 Gambia
 Ghana
 Guinea
 Kenya
 Lesotho
 Liberia
 Malawi
 Mali
 Mozambique
 Namibia
 Niger
 Rwanda
 Senegal
 Sierra Leone
 South Africa
 Tanzania
 Togo
 Uganda
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe
 
 I plan to use IPUMS to create a pooled dataset containing selected/harmonized variables of interest. However, IPUMS currently does not have data for the following countries (unless I am mistaken):
 
 Chad
 Gabon
 Liberia
 Sierra Leone
 Togo
 Swaziland/Eswatini
 
 If this is the case, my plan is to go ahead generate the pooled dataset using IPUMS. I have access to the data for these subset of six countries. How do I append them to the IPUMS harmonized version and ensure that is is truly harmonized - with variable and value/labels?
 
 thanks - Yawo
 
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