@article{Rodriguez_36_31, author = {Rodriguez, Germán and Croft, Trevor}, title={{Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in Stata}}, journal = {Demographic Research}, volume = {36}, number = {31}, pages = {893--904}, doi = {10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.31}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Background: 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. Contribution: 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. }, URL = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/31/}, eprint = {https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/31/36-31.pdf} }