Centre for Longitudinal Studies



Compute vpregi16=pregi16.

Compute vpregi17=pregi17.

Compute vpregi18=pregi18.

Compute vpregi19=pregi19.

Compute vpregi20=pregi20.

Compute vpregi21=pregi21.

Compute vpregi22=pregi22.

Compute vpregi23=pregi23.

Compute vpregi24=pregi24.

Compute vpregi25=pregi25.

Compute vpregi26=pregi26.

Compute vpregi27=pregi27.

Compute vpregi28=pregi28.

Compute vpregi29=pregi29.

Compute vpregi30=pregi30.

Compute vpregi31=pregi31.

Compute vpregi32=pregi32.

Compute vpregi33=pregi33.

Compute vpregi34=pregi34.

Compute vpregi35=pregi35.

Compute vpregi36=pregi36.

Compute vpregi37=pregi37.

Compute vpregi38=pregi38.

Compute vpregi39=pregi39.

Compute vpregi40=pregi40.

* Having copied all the data into manageable v-prefix vectors, use loop structure to copy them
to their correct

* position (x-prefix vectors), then copy them back to their ordinary names from the x-prefix
vectors.

* As we can be sure at this stage we are only interested in single-baby pregnancies, the

* destination slots are numbered 1,6,11,16,21,26,31 and 36 (i.e. 5*#i-4).

* Note this process only occurs for cases where we know the outcomes have been wrongly
bunched in the same pregnancy,

* or where the outcomes are in the wrong chronological order, or (in the case of NCDS) where
a birth event prior to March 1991 is

* recorded, and we know the member was interviewed at that last sweep in 1991 . Even in
the above cases, we don't proceed if there are any

* outcomes with a year entered as '9999', or where we know there are any true multiple
outcomes, or any dubious multiple

* outcomes (i.e. >3 days but less than 9 months apart). The only exceptions are 26 'dubious'
cases referred to specifically by

* serial number, where manual scrutiny revealed they contain no true multiple outcomes, and
have no '9999' years, plus a further

* 12 cases where outcomes were not out of chronological order, but where slot 1 wasn't filled
in (i.e. data started at slot 6, then

* slot 11,... etc.) So all data had to be moved 'back' by one pregnancy.

* Initiate variable 'changed', which flags up all cases that needed any kind of alteration
(automatic or manual). If 'changed'

* remains zero, no need to overwrite existing variables with values of x-prefix vectors (which
in any case, won't have been defined).

Compute changed=0.

Do if (((bunched=1 or ordrflag=1 or pre91flg=1) and (noyrflag=0 and truemult=0 and
oddmult=0)) or

(nserial='055086Z' or nserial='084004J' or nserial='110304M' or nserial='223020B' or



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