Using PMA Ethiopia Public Data

By Ann Rogers

Regional health bureau representatives exercising how to access PMA data during data use workshop in Addis Ababa

Are you interested in using PMA Ethiopia data but aren’t quite sure where to start? Would you like examples of how to use the data, particularly the longitudinal datasets? Look no further than the public PMA GitHub repository!

PMA Ethiopia has published Stata .do files online in the public PMA GitHub repository that allow data users to replicate the tables from the PMA Ethiopia Six-Week Postpartum Maternal and Newborn Health Technical Report, 2019–2021 and the PMA Ethiopia Service Delivery Point Technical Report, 2019 using the publicly available datasets on the PMA website. Users can run these Stata .do files and they will produce Excel files with individual sheets for each table in the report.

a participant accessing PMA Ethiopia data during a data use workshop in Addis Ababa

To download the Stata .do files from GitHub, go to the repository webpage:

Select the green drop-down button “Code” on the right and then “Download ZIP”. All the .do files in the repository will download into a zip file named PMA_Analyses_Public-master.zip.

To replicate the PMA Ethiopia SDP Technical Report, 2019 you will need:

· Stata installed on your device

· The PMAET_2019SDP_TechnicalReport_PR.do file (found in the PMA_Analysis_Public-master.zip)

· The publicly available PMA Ethiopia 2019 SDP dataset (as of this blog post: PMAET_SQ_2019_CrossSection_v2.0_13Aug2021.dta)

To replicate the PMA Ethiopia 6-Week Postpartum Maternal and Newborn Health Technical Report, 2019–2021, you will need:

· Stata installed on your device

· The PMAET_Cohort1_6W_MNHTechnicalReport_PR.do file (found in the PMA_Analysis_Public-master.zip)

· The publicly available PMA Ethiopia Cohort 1 Baseline dataset (as of this post: PMAET_HQFQ_Panel_Cohort1_BL_v2.0_19May2021.dta)

· The publicly available PMA Ethiopia Cohort 1 6-Week Follow-up dataset (as of this post: PMAET_Panel_Cohort1_6wkFU_v1.0_19May2021.dta)

If you have ideas for your own longitudinal analyses of PMA Ethiopia’s 6-Week Follow-Up or PMA Ethiopia’s 6-Month Follow-Up data, but you are not sure how to merge the datasets, review the notes and Stata .do files included in the zip file when downloading the public data from the PMA website. These documents have examples of how to merge and analyze PMA Ethiopia’s longitudinal data.

Happy analyzing!