Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in Stata

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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Main Authors: Germán Rodriguez, Trevor Croft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2017-03-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/31/
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spelling doaj-6aaba926ff044be2a5f2e97ef448e24e2020-11-25T00:00:47ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712017-03-01363110.4054/DemRes.2017.36.313463Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in StataGermán Rodriguez0Trevor Croft1Princeton UniversityICF International<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.https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/31/
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title_short Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in Stata
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description <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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