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LS variable metadata
| CHILD7 |
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| Table | ME71 1971 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | Number of persons in household aged under 16. 1971. |
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| Source | 1971 Census. |
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| Code notes | 0 - 50 = Count of persons usually resident aged < 16
-1 = Communal establishment |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 0 | 0 |
| -1 | Communal establishment |
| -2 | Untraced or missing non-nember data |
| -3 | Not in a family |
| -4 | No dependent children |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 459 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) page 234, page 236, page 251, page 32. |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 1710 |
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| m204name | PAABME71 |
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| fullname | (ME71)CHILD7 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1971 Census. |
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| derived | Y |
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| derivation | Derived from AGE7 and VISIND7 where VISIND7 = 0 (not a visitor). All records within a household, including the LS member, are checked and a count kept of the number of persons aged under 16. The count becomes the value of CHILD7. |
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| codelist | Y |
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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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| sasname | S21018 |
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| keyword | Family |
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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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