SES Combined socio-economic data

Malawi

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DDI-MWI-MEIRU-SES-2007-v01b

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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS

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Livestock owned now: cattle (D) (cattleown)

Data file: combined_ses_hh

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Valid: 40348

Invalid: 18911

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 83

End: 83

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
0	0	30670	76%
1	1-2	5139	12.7%
2	3-5	2612	6.5%
3	6-9	1120	2.8%
4	>=10	807	2%
8	Unknown	0	0%
9	Missing	0
Sysmiss		18911

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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Livestock owned now: cattle

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

variable: cattleown (table[s]: css_seh)
variable: cattleqty (table[s]: gp_gphhold)
variable: cow (table[s]: NCD_combined_data_all_final [derived table])

egen cattleqty2=cut(cattleqty), at(0,1,3,6,10,9999) /*on some of the forms just the number of cattle was asked, so this converts back to the above type*/
recode cattleqty2 3=2 6=3 10=4
replace cattleown=cattleqty2 if cattleown==. & cattleqty2~=.

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