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LS variable metadata

LEGEIM
TableIDMI Infant mortality - Infant death of a birth to sample mother
Short descriptionBirth inside/outside marriage of deceased infant of LS member (code at death).
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 the Legitimacy Act 6 = Adopted (birth within marriage) Space = birth within marriage 1982-1985: 1 = birth within marriage 2 = birth outside marriage 1986 onwards: Not available. Field set to Space.

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
id2318
m204namePAABIDMI
fullname(IDMI)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
formatText
length1
occurs4
startdate19760101
enddate19861231
keywordFertility
classification
comvarind
comvartime
field0IDMI

CeLSIUS data dictionary based on original version supplied by ONS