Extracting and reshaping World Fertility Survey data in Stata

Germán Rodriguez and Trevor Croft
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Germán Rodriguez: Princeton University
Trevor Croft: ICF International

Demographic Research, 2017, vol. 36, issue 31, 893-904

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.

Keywords: birth history; union histories; Stata; survey; surveys (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.31

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