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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