Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 1996 - 2996

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Reference ID

LSO_1996_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of Statistics, IPUMS

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Person number (PERNUM)

Data file: LSO1996_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 30

End: 33

Width: 4

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

PERNUM numbers all persons within each household consecutively (starting with "1" for the first person record of each household). When combined with SAMPLE and SERIAL, PERNUM uniquely identifies each person in the IPUMS-International database.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Technical Person Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

PERNUM is a 4-digit numeric variable.

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