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MICS sibling history variable map for MICS6

sibhist_varmap_mics6.Rd

A data frame mapping variable names used in the MICS6 maternal mortality module (mm.sav) to the standardized names used by this package. This is the default varmap for prep_mics_sib_histories.

Format

A data frame with columns orig.varname, new.varname, sibvar, description and comments.

Details

MICS6 renumbered the roster to MM15–MM27 and added MM26 (violence) and MM27 (accident), so MICS6 supports maternal mortality as well as pregnancy-related mortality.

Note that MM16 means different things in MICS and the DHS: in MICS6 it is "Is (name) still alive?", while in DHS phase 7 and later mm16 is "died of violence or an accident". prep_mics_sib_histories refuses to run a varmap that maps mm16 to sib.died.accident.

Variable names are lowercase; see prep_mics_sib_histories and its lowercase argument.