Friedrich,
Normally, I should now have the correct data set. mage and fage is produced
accordingly:
by hhid: gen mage = hv105[hv112]
by hhid: gen fage = hv105[hv114]
I tried this in two ways to see the reliability. I produced mage and fage in the
household member file. I got the following response. As you can see, the min age
for mothers' is 5, which is of course not reasonable. I assume, as we discussed
before, treat small or high values as missing.
. sum mage fage
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
mage | 9411 35.21177 8.643875 5 76
fage | 7265 44.92953 12.64342 19 99
Then I produced a second time both mothers' and fathers' age just after having
merged together all three files. This is denoted as mothage and fathage. Just to
double check, it should produce the same results. However, I got two different
results:
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
mothage | 9411 18.81649 17.23886 0 99
fathage | 7265 20.20564 18.35254 0 99
I don't completely understand why there is difference in before and after
merging. I read some of the previous questions concerning how to assign mothers'
age to child. There was a solution suggested to use loop, this this something I
should do?
More to, shouldn't these variables (the created mage, fage) correspond to v730
(partners' age) and v447a (womens' age in yrs from household report). But this
is not the case when I double check.
Tharshini
On 2009-07-29, at 01:45, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
> Tharshini,
>
> Please read the documentation for -merge- to understand how it works.
> Do not -drop- anything after -merge- besides the _merge variable. You
> have to keep all household members if you want to assign the parents'
> ages and other characteristics to a child. How to do that was
> explained in a previous post.
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-06/msg00793.html
>
> Friedrich
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Tharshini
> Thangavelu<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Friedrich,
>>
>> 1.)The program "select" was suggested by DHS at the FAQ section.. When I wanted
>> to upload the individual recode file, I couldn't because there was too many
>> variables. As a results, I used this program. You can find more info on their
>> website.
>>
>> 2.)I did as your suggestion. I uploaded the whole household member data, merged
>> it with weight file and I did NOT use the command keep, only drop command to
>> take away the _merge variable. Otherwise I cannot merge it with the individual
>> file. I tried and it gave me an error message: _merge already defined.
>>
>> So I drop the _merge variable form the resulting file (uppsats.dta). Then, I
>> write the following command:
>>
>> merge clnr hhnr lnr using ir
>>
>> variables clnr hhnr lnr do not uniquely identify observations in the master data
>> caseid was str12 now str15
>>
>>
>> tab _merge
>>
>> _merge | Freq. Percent Cum.
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>> 1 | 23,199 78.11 78.11
>> 2 | 3,100 10.44 88.55
>> 3 | 3,402 11.45 100.00
>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>> Total | 29,701 100.00
>>
>>
>> Now comes a tricky part for me. Using the following commands, doesn't give me
>> the desired results.
>> keep if _merge==3
>> drop _merge
>>
>> This file, just at in the former case when tabulating hv105 (= age of household
>> member) gives exactly same answer, that is only children's age is included 0-5
>> years.
>>
>> But if I don't use the command keep or drop. I have the age of ALL household
member.
>>
>> My question is should I keep the "_merge" variable ? According to what I have
>> been reading, I thought the functioning of merge is to only keep if _merge ==3.
>>
>> 3.) In your former email you say that : I drop all children without height and
>> weight data and all adults, including parents. In my analysis, I use as
>> dependent variable child health measured by age for height Z-score and weight
>> for age Z-score. For those children having these Z-score, I need to match them
>> with their respective parents education, age and households characteristics
>> ect.to see if mothers' father's with higher education have children with better
>> child health measured bye Z-score. Therefore, shouldn't the way I was doing be
>> correct? Or I have misunderstood completely.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tharshini
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2009-07-28, at 15:43, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
>>> Tharshini,
>>>
>>> In step 3 you -drop- all children without height and weight data and
>>> all adults, including all parents.
>>>
>>> You write "The household member data includes to many variables to
>>> directly upload in stata." The flat household member recode file from
>>> the Ghana DHS 2003 has 245 variables. The only version of Stata that
>>> cannot hold 245 variables is Small Stata. Your -tab- output indicates
>>> that you do not have Small Stata because you were able to work with
>>> more than 26000 observations (see -help limits-). You should therefore
>>> be able to open the complete household member file with Stata. I don't
>>> know a program called "select" but it does not seem to be necessary.
>>>
>>> Friedrich
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Tharshini
>>> Thangavelu<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Friedrich,
>>>>
>>>> When I downloaded the dataset for Ghana 2003, there was a doc.file in the file
>>>> for height and weight. A describtion of how to processed when merging and which
>>>> identifying variables to chose in each and every file. I followed this doc.fil
>>>> I merged the file according to the following way;
>>>>
>>>> 1.) The height and weight file for children up to 5 years old.
>>>> rename HWHHID caseid
>>>> rename HWLINE linenr
>>>> sort caseid linenr
>>>> save weight, replace
>>>> clear exit
>>>>
>>>> 2.) The household member data includes to many variables to directly upload in
>>>> stata, so I used the program "select", where I selected my variables of
>>>> interest. Then I uploaded in stata;
>>>>
>>>> use hmr1
>>>> rename hhid caseid
>>>> rename hvidx linenr
>>>> sort caseid linenr
>>>> save hmr1, replace
>>>>
>>>> 3.) These two files was then merged together (master data = hmr1)
>>>>
>>>> merge caseid linenr using weight
>>>>
>>>> tab _merge
>>>>
>>>> _merge | Freq. Percent Cum.
>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>> 1 | 22,673 85.23 85.23
>>>> 3 | 3,928 14.77 100.00
>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>> Total | 26,601 100.00
>>>>
>>>> . keep if _merge ==3
>>>> (22673 observations deleted)
>>>>
>>>> . drop _merge
>>>>
>>>> Error message : linenr was byte now int
>>>>
>>>> My own conclusion: Since _merge 3 = 3928 observations which is exactly same
>>>> amount of obs. as in the weight file. I concluded the merging was correctly
>>>> made. I also tried with the inverse case, i.e. having hmr as my master data.
>>>>
>>>> 4.) With this resulting file, I merged it with the individual recode file
>>>> (=womens file). Cluster number (clnrhv001), householdnr (hhnr hv002) and
>>>> mothers' line nr (lnr hc60)
>>>>
>>>> In the resulting file, I again renamed the identifying variables
>>>> rename HV001 clnr
>>>> rename HV002 hhnr
>>>> rename hc60 lnr
>>>> sort clnr hhnr lnr
>>>> save thesis
>>>> clear exit
>>>>
>>>> 5.)In the individual recode file, just as in the household member recode
file, I
>>>> used the program "select" to chose the variables and the following identifying
>>>> variables were renamed. Cluster number (clnr v001), Household number (hhnr
v002)
>>>> and Respondent's line number (lnr v003).
>>>>
>>>> use ir1
>>>> rename V001 clnr
>>>> rename V002 hhnr
>>>> rename V003 lnr
>>>> sort clnr hhnr lnr
>>>> save ir1, replace
>>>>
>>>> 6.)Now, I merge the ir1.dta with the thesis.dta
>>>>
>>>> merge clnr hhnr lnr using thesis
>>>> tab _merge
>>>>
>>>> _merge | Freq. Percent Cum.
>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>> 1 | 526 7.48 7.48
>>>> 2 | 3,100 44.11 51.59
>>>> 3 | 3,402 48.41 100.00
>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>> Total | 7,028 100.00
>>>>
>>>> . keep if _merge == 3
>>>> (3626 observations deleted)
>>>>
>>>> . drop _merge
>>>>
>>>> Error message: variables clnr hhnr lnr do not uniquely identify observations in
>>>> the master data. I hope this will help to solve the problem.
>>>>
>>>> / Tharshini
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2009-07-28, at 06:28, Friedrich Huebler wrote:
>>>>> Tharshini,
>>>>>
>>>>> On June 11 you wrote that you wanted to merge the household member
>>>>> file with the height and weight file. In response to your message you
>>>>> received advice on how you can merge the data. The table in your
>>>>> message of today makes clear that you did not merge the files
>>>>> correctly because you only have persons up to 5 years of age. If you
>>>>> want more help with this and the other problems you described you have
>>>>> to show us your code, as explained in the Statalist FAQ.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#advice
>>>>>
>>>>> Friedrich
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Tharshini
>>>>> Thangavelu<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .tab hv105
>>>>>> Age of |
>>>>>> household |
>>>>>> members | Freq. Percent Cum.
>>>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>>>> 0 | 772 22.69 22.69
>>>>>> 1 | 706 20.75 43.45
>>>>>> 2 | 655 19.25 62.70
>>>>>> 3 | 689 20.25 82.95
>>>>>> 4 | 553 16.26 99.21
>>>>>> 5 | 27 0.79 100.00
>>>>>> ------------+-----------------------------------
>>>>>> Total | 3,402 100.00
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