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LS variable metadata
| LSRELAT7 |
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| Table | NM71 1971 Census - non-LS members |
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| Short description | Relationship of non-LS member to LS member. 1971. |
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| Source | Derived from 1971 Census Questions B3, B4, B5 and B6. |
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| Code notes | Codes 1-7 were only assigned to people in the family of the LS Member. It follows from this that: (i) if the LS Member was ever-married, his or her parents cannot be identified using LSRELAT, and (ii) ever-married children or siblings of the LS Member cannot identified as such. |
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Variable coding
| Value | Label |
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| 1 | Husband |
| 2 | Wife |
| 3 | Father |
| 4 | Mother |
| 5 | Sibling |
| 6 | Dependent child |
| 7 | Non-dependent child |
| 8 | Unrelated to LS member, not in LS member family. See code notes. |
| 9 | LS member |
References
| Refnum | Reference |
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| 473 | See LS Technical Volume (Hattersley and Creeser, 1995) page 250 for definition of a family. |
Additional information
| Value | Label |
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| id | 639 |
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| m204name | PAABNM71 |
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| fullname | (NM71)LSRELAT7 |
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| description | |
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| codedas | MAIN |
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| source | Derived from 1971 Census Questions B3, B4, B5 and B6. |
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| derived | N |
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| codelist | Y |
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| notes | A known error affecting codes 5 (Sibling), 6 (Dependent child) and 7 (Non-dependent child) was amended prior to the data transfer to the Model 204 environment. Total counts relating to these codes show subsequent adjustment. See algorithm & documentation relating to 1991 Census-LS Link for further information. |
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| formerly | LSRELAT |
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| restricted | N |
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| format | Numeric |
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| length | 1 |
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| occurs | 20 |
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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 | NM71 |
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