Extracting And Reshaping World Fertility Survey Data In Stata

BACKGROUNDThe 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.CONTRIBUTIONTo encourage and facilitate the use of this data, we provide a Stata command that can be used to extract and reshape the data, using local copies or working directly with the DHS data archive pages.