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LS variable metadata

LEGEIM
TableIDFI Infant mortality - infant death of a birth to sample father (birth years 1976-1978)
Short descriptionBirth within/outside marriage of deceased infant of LS member.
SourceDerived from information collected at birth registration held in entry at NHSCR and linked to death record when death entered in register
Code notes1971-1975: Space 1976-1981: Aged under 16:- 1= adopted, birth outside marriage 2= birth outside marriage registered solely by the mother 3= birth outside marriage registered jointly by both parents 4= birth outside marriage re-registered on joint information 5 = birth legitimated by re-registration under Legitimacy Act 6 = Adopted (birth within marriage) Space = birth within marriage 1982-1985: 1 = birth within marriage 2 = birth outside marriage 1986 onwards: Blank - not available.

Variable coding

The codelist for this variable is not available.


References

RefnumReference
783See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995), page 343 (death registration draft entry form), page 25 and page 96 (general details), pp. 99-104 (comparability), pp. 141-145 (data quality).

Additional information

ValueLabel
id1531
m204namePAABIDFI
fullname(IDFI)LEGEIM
description
codedas
sourceDerived from information collected at birth registration held in entry at NHSCR and linked to death record when death entered in register
derivedY
codelistN
notesWhere date of birth of deceased is prior to January 1968, all but a few cases are not coded 1-6, but are coded Blank (birth within marriage)
formerly'Legitimacy'
restrictedN
formatNumeric
length2
occurs4
keywordFertility
classification
comvarind
comvartime
field0IDFI

CeLSIUS data dictionary based on original version supplied by ONS