Sue
I'm presuming that what you have is a birthdate (in variable 'date') and gestation at birth in days (variable 'days').
The following (wholly untested) code should then produce a new file containing for each date, the number of women between 168 & 259 days on that date:
postfile p date nwomen using newfile.dta
forvalues d=`=d(1jan1988)'/`=d(31dec2000)' {
count if days-date+`d'>=168 & days-date+`d'<=259
post p (`d') (`r(N)')
}
postclose p
David
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Lee [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 07 September 2004 15:19
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: nested loops for calculating a population 'at risk'
hello,
i'm not exactly new to the list, but i've never posted a question
before. i'm really stuck at the moment so i'm hopeful that someone may
be able to help...
basically, i have a large data set of births from 1 jan 1988 to 31 dec
2000. each birth has its own record. i would like to calculate the
number of women at a certain stage of pregnancy on any given day, say
between 24 and 37 weeks (which equals 168 to 259 days).
so, for example, to calculate the number of women on 1 Jan 1988 who are
at this stage of pregnancy, I figure I need to:
include all women on that day who are greater than 167 days, but less
than 259 days
+ all women on 2 Jan 1988 who are more than 168 days but less than 260
days
+ all women on 3 Jan 1988 who are more than 169 days but less than 261
days
+ all women on 4 Jan 1988 who are more than 170 days but less than 262
days,
etc (repeat loop until max value of days is reached)
but I can't figure out how to translate this into stata code.
One of my big problems is that I have many records for each date (i.e.,
each baby born on 1 jan 1988 has a record for that day!) and I am
stumped on how deal with this in a loop.
I hope this makes sense and that someone is feeling generous enough to
help me figure this out!
Many thanks
Best wishes
Sue
PhD student
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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