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Re: Merging BR file with PR file for NFHS-4 round(India) [message #17856 is a reply to message #17839]

Wed, 26 June 2019 20:25

Bridgette-DHS
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Registered: February 2013

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Following is a response from Senior DHS Stata Specialist, Tom Pullum:

You are getting a large number of unmatched cases because you do not have any restrictions on age. The cases with _merge=1 are household members who do not appear in the birth histories--obviously the great majority of household members. The cases with _merge=2 are "children" in the birth histories who can be up to 30-34 years old, and not in the same household as their mother. If the child is missing on b16, it is because he/she has died. If b16 is =, then the child is living but not in the household.

It would be reasonable to impose an age limit such as 4 or 14 or 17 and to omit children who have died.

I don't see anything wrong with your Stata code.

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		Merging BR file with PR file for NFHS-4 round(India) By: preshit on Fri, 21 June 2019 02:29
		Re: Merging BR file with PR file for NFHS-4 round(India) By: preshit on Sun, 23 June 2019 19:43
		Re: Merging BR file with PR file for NFHS-4 round(India) By: Bridgette-DHS on Wed, 26 June 2019 20:25
		Re: Merging BR file with PR file for NFHS-4 round(India) By: preshit on Sun, 07 July 2019 14:58

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