How to calculate median of 5 year Age category of 15-49 year women sample in DHS

[Sein Hlaing]

Dear Statalist

May I request how to calculate for Median of 5 year age category of 15-49 year women sample in Demographic and Health Survey ?

With regards
Sein

[Clyde Schechter]

The correct code will depend on the specifics of how your data is organized. Please post back with an example of your data, using the -dataex- command. If you are running version 16 or a fully updated version 15.1 or 14.2, -dataex- is already part of your official Stata installation. If not, run -ssc install dataex- to get it. Either way, run -help dataex- to read the simple instructions for using it. -dataex- will save you time; it is easier and quicker than typing out tables. It includes complete information about aspects of the data that are often critical to answering your question but cannot be seen from tabular displays or screenshots. It also makes it possible for those who want to help you to create a faithful representation of your example to try out their code, which in turn makes it more likely that their answer will actually work in your data.

When asking for help with code, always show example data. When showing example data, always use -dataex-.

[Sein Hlaing]

Dear Clyde
Thanks so much for your guidance and recommendation on dataex.
pls let me post the following example data of 5 year age group of women sample from DHS for calculating Median value.

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* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input double V013
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label values V013 V013
label def V013 1 "15-19", modify
label def V013 2 "20-24", modify
label def V013 3 "25-29", modify
label def V013 4 "30-34", modify
label def V013 5 "35-39", modify
label def V013 6 "40-44", modify
label def V013 7 "45-49", modify

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This is my first time of using dataex , hopefully this is in correct application.

Pls have some more guidance for how to calculate the Median value.

With Regards
Sein Hlaing

[Clyde Schechter]

centile V013, centile(50)

is one way. There are several other ways to do this as well. I chose this one because I think it is the simplest and the syntax is the most expressive of the problem.