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LS variable metadata
| HRC8 |
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| Table | ME81 1981 Census - LS members |
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| Short description | Relationship to head of household. 1981. |
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| Source | 1981 Census. Question 5. |
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| Code notes | |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 1 | Head |
| 2 | Spouse |
| 3 | Son or daughter |
| 4 | Son-in-law or daughter-in-law |
| 5 | Mother or father |
| 6 | Mother-in-law or father-in-law |
| 7 | Brother or sister |
| 8 | Brother-in-law or sister-in-law |
| 9 | Grandchild |
| 10 | Nephew or niece |
| 11 | Other relative |
| 12 | Resident domestic servant and family |
| 13 | Boarder |
| 14 | De facto spouse |
| 15 | Joint head |
| 16 | Other unrelated |
| -9 | Person in Communal establishment |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 802 | See LS Update article on Using the LS for intra household analyses, (Judith Wright and Kevin Lynch), Issue no. 12, November 1995, pp. 12-16 |
| 659 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) pp. 292-293, page 65. |
| 40 | 1981 Census Appendix 5 |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 2214 |
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| m204name | PAABME81 |
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| fullname | (ME81)HRC8 |
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| description | This gives the relationship to the head of household whether or not the LS member is usually resident in the household. |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | 1981 Census. Question 5. |
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| derived | N |
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| codelist | Y |
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| formerly | HRC |
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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 | S32017 |
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| sasname | S31092 |
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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 | ME81 |
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