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LS variable metadata
| AGEC77 |
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| Table | ME71 1971 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | Age of mother at birth of youngest child. 1971. |
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| Source | 1971 Census. Questions B2 and B23. Applicability: ever-married women aged under 60 enumerated in private households and traced at the 1971 Census. |
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| Code notes | 12..59 years.
-5 = Not stated |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| -9 | Missing |
| -4 | No First Birth |
| -3 | Aged Over 60 |
| -2 | Single |
| -1 | Male |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 646 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) pp. 267-270, pp. 33-34. |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 2014 |
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| m204name | PAABME71 |
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| fullname | (ME71)AGEC77 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1971 Census. Questions B2 and B23. Applicability: ever-married women aged under 60 enumerated in private households and traced at the 1971 Census. |
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| derived | Y |
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| derivation | Derived from date of birth and date of birth of youngest child. |
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| codelist | Y |
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| notes | Values were mistakenly created for women who had not answered the 1971 census question on fertility: where the date of first and subsequent births was blank, the algorithm gave a value of the LS members year of birth +1. |
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| formerly | AGEC7 |
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| restricted | N |
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| format | Numeric |
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| length | 2 |
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| occurs | 1 |
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| nmsasname | S22003 |
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| sasname | S21003 |
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| keyword | Fertility |
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| classification | |
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| comvarind | |
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| comvartime | |
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| field0 | ME71 |
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