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Contraceptive Prevalence Rate [message #18119] Mon, 23 September 2019 04:29 Go to previous message
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I am trying to calculate contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) among currently married women (CMW) in India based on the DHS 2015-16 dataset. In the numerator I am including all CMW who are currently using any method of contraception.
1. To get the count of CMW in the denominator, I am using the variable V502 and selecting factor level = "1". This gives me D = 499,627 records.
2. In the subset of data obtained above, to get the count of number of CMW who are currently using any method of contraceptive, I am using the variable V361 with factor level = "10" (currently using). This gives me N = 252,603 records.
3. Thus CPR among CMW = N/D*100 = 50.6%.
But, the summary reports of DHS 2015-16 (or NFHS 2015-16) as well as figures from the STATCompiler show CPR among CMW as 53.5%. Am I missing something?
As per convention in many publications, I have removed all currently pregnant women (V213 ≠ 1) from the denominator and the corresponding CPR figure is 54.04%.
Am I on the right track? What am I missing here? Why am I not getting the figure of 53.5%?
 
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