| Re: Previous adverse pregnancy outcome variable [message #12114 is a reply to message #12113] |
Wed, 29 March 2017 04:37  |
HanR
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Registered: March 2013
Location: Netherlands
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Hi Ali,
Some thoughts:
From your message below I understand that you created a new file with the female as identifier (qhclust qhnumber qline). The unit of analysis in your file is one woman. This would mean that all occurrences of variables in the pregnancy history have their own unique name (as in for example q314_01 and q314_02 etc.). You would then be able to determine whether a previous pregnancy was a stillbirth or not by looking at the previous occurrences of q314 and the length of the pregnancy in q325 of the same occurrences (consider using arrays here).
The variable psurv_* does not distinguish between spontaneous/induced abortions and stillbirth. If you are specifically only looking at still births (born dead after 7+ months of pregnancy) then this variable will not help you.
If you want to know whether the respondent had any non-live birth before the last one then you could use q309 by simply looking at the outcome of the last birth and the total number of non-live births in q309.
Good luck.
Han.
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