South Asia DHS harmonization and analysis documentation

Part of PhD project on Infant Mortality Clustering in South Asia

This is the Quarto website for documentation of harmonization, pooling and analysis of South Asian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) datasets. This is a part of my PHD research on “Clustering and Risk Factors of Fetal Deaths and Early-life Mortality and Across Families and Communities in South Asian Countries” under Dr Abhishek Singh and Dr Domantas Jasilionis. In South Asia, DHS datasets are available for the following 6 countries:

  1. Afghanistan

  2. Bangladesh

  3. India

  4. Maldives

  5. Nepal

  6. Pakistan

The contents of this website are distributed into the following sections:

  • Raw Data Dictionaries: This section contains the dictionaries of the variables available across the birth history, individual, household and person recode files of South Asian DHS.

  • Variable checklist: This section contains the checklist of the variables we need for analysis across the DHS datasets of South Asia.

  • Data Pooling Pre-checks: Here we have documented the variable structures before harmonizing and pooling.

  • Pooled Data Dictionaries: This section contains the data dictionaries of the pooled datasets to be used for analysis across South Asia and it’s countries.

  • Preliminary Data Analysis: In this section we perform basic data analysis to get an idea about the trends and determinants of early-life mortality clustering.

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