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LS variable metadata
| FHIND7 |
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| Table | ME71 1971 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | Family head indicator - persons in the household. 1971 |
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| Source | 1971 Census. Derived from Questions B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6. Identifies type of family head. |
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| Code notes | |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 0 | Not family head |
| 1 | Family head |
| space | Not in a Family |
| -1 | Communal Establishment |
| -2 | Untraced miss NM data |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 476 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) page 250. |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 1729 |
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| m204name | PAABME71 |
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| fullname | (ME71)FHIND7 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1971 Census. Derived from Questions B2, B3, B4, B5 and B6. Identifies type of family head. |
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| derived | N |
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| codelist | Y |
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| notes | During the reformat & processing of the historic LS data to the Model 204 environment, this field was recoded to 1 (Family Head) if the value was 2 (Lone parent family, male head), or 3 (Lone parent family, female head). |
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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 | S22030 |
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| sasname | S21076 |
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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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