BanglaContrac: Contraception use in Bangladesh

In HRW: Datasets, Functions and Scripts for Semiparametric Regression Supporting Harezlak, Ruppert & Wand (2018)

Description

The BanglaContrac data frame has multilevel data from the 1988 Bangladesh Fertility Survey. There are data on contraceptive use, number of children, age and urban-dweller status of 1,934 women grouped in 60 districts.

Usage

data(BanglaContrac)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

districtID

district identification number.

usingContraception

indicator that woman is using contraception:
1 = woman using contraception at time of survey,
0 = woman not using contraception at time of survey.

childCode

numerical code for number of living children:
1 = no living children at time of survey,
2 = one living child at time of survey,
3 = two living children at time of survey,
4 = three or more living children at time of survey.

ageMinusMean

age in years of woman at time of survey, with mean age subtracted

isUrban

indicator that woman lives in an urban region:
1 = woman an urban region dweller at time of survey,
0 = woman a rural region dweller at time of survey.

Source

Huq, N.M. and Cleland, J. (1990). Bangladesh Fertility Survey 1989 (Main Report). Dhaka, Bangladesh: National Institute of Population Research and Training.

Examples

library(HRW) ; data(BanglaContrac)
if (require("lattice"))
   print(xyplot(jitter(usingContraception) ~ ageMinusMean|factor(districtID),
         groups = childCode, data = BanglaContrac))

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