Volume 36 - Article 31 | Pages 893–904 
Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in Stata
| Date received: | 25 Nov 2016 |
| Date published: | 22 Mar 2017 |
| Word count: | 2694 |
| Keywords: | birth history, Stata, survey, surveys, union histories |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.31 |
| Additional files: | readme.36-31 (text file, 168 Byte) |
| demographic-research.36-31 (zip file, 587 Byte) | |
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.
Author's Affiliation
Germán Rodriguez - Princeton University, United States of America
Trevor Croft - ICF International, United States of America
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