Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in Stata
<b>Background</b>: The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has made available online a large number of public use files from its predecessor, the World Fertility Survey (WFS) program, see wfs.dhsprogram.com. <b>Contribution</b>: To encourage and facilitate the use...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
| Online Access: | https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/31/ |
| Summary: | <b>Background</b>: The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program has made available online a large number of public use files from its predecessor, the World Fertility Survey (WFS) program, see wfs.dhsprogram.com. <b>Contribution</b>: To encourage and facilitate the use of these data we provide a Stata command that can be used to extract and reshape the data, using local copies or directly from the DHS data archive pages. |
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| ISSN: | 1435-9871 |