st: Looping over variables

[Ingeborg Forthun <ingeborg.forthun@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

I have a dataset that includes information on the outcome of
pregnancies and number of weeks of pregnancy for each outcome for
about 100 000 women identified by an id-number PREG_ID.
The outcome of each pregnancy is defined by the variables aa95 (first
pregnancy), aa101 (second pregnancy), aa107 (third pregnancy), and so
on (in total 10 possible pregnancies). And each of these variables can
take values from 1-7 (1=liverborn, 2=stillbirth, 3=abortion etc). I
want to make a variable that counts the number of pregnancies for each
woman if outcome is 1 or 5 or if outcome is 2,3,4,6 or 7 and number of
weeks of pregnancy was more than 12 weeks. Number of weeks of
pregnancy is given by aa96 (corresponding to the outcome of the first
pregnancy given by aa95), aa102 (corresponding to the outcome of the
second pregnancy given by aa101), and so on.

I have used this code in STATA:
gen n_preg = 0
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa95==1 | aa95==5 | ((aa95==2 | aa95==3
| aa95==4 | aa95==6 | aa95==7) & aa96>12 & aa96 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa101==1 | aa101==5 | ((aa101==2 |
aa101==3 | aa101==4 | aa101==6 | aa101==7) & aa102>12  & aa102 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa107==1 | aa107==5 | ((aa107==2 |
aa107==3 | aa107==4 | aa107==6 | aa107==7) & aa108>12  & aa108 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa113==1 | aa113==5 | ((aa113==2 |
aa113==3 | aa113==4 | aa113==6 | aa113==7) & aa114>12  & aa114 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa119==1 | aa119==5 | ((aa119==2 |
aa119==3 | aa119==4 | aa119==6 | aa119==7) & aa120>12  & aa120 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa125==1 | aa125==5 | ((aa125==2 |
aa125==3 | aa125==4 | aa125==6 | aa125==7) & aa126>12  & aa126 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa131==1 | aa131==5 | ((aa131==2 |
aa131==3 | aa131==4 | aa131==6 | aa131==7) & aa132>12  & aa132 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa137==1 | aa137==5 | ((aa137==2 |
aa137==3 | aa137==4 | aa137==6 | aa137==7) & aa138>12  & aa138 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa143==1 | aa143==5 | ((aa143==2 |
aa143==3 | aa143==4 | aa143==6 | aa143==7) & aa144>12  & aa144 != .)
replace n_preg = n_preg + 1 if aa149==1 | aa149==5 | ((aa149==2 |
aa149==3 | aa149==4 | aa149==6 | aa149==7) & aa150>12  & aa150 != .)



This works fine, but is there a more elegant solution, for example
using foreach? I have tried help foreach with not much luck.

I'll be very grateful for any help on this.

Best regards,
Ingeborg Forthun
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