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  Princeton European Fertility Project Codebook for Master Data File

Princeton European Fertility Project
Codebook for Master Data File

Title Record

Cols. Description
1-2 Country identification number 3 Series number 4-5 Area identification number (00 = entire country) 6 blank 7-8 Deck number (0 on title record; 1 to n on data records, where n is the total number of data records for an area) 9-30 Area name 31-32 Regional classification (See country-specific list of codes.) 33-34 Ethnic or language classification (See country-specific list of codes.) 35-36 Summary area code 0 = Country or province (basic area used) 1 = District, republic, constant-boundary area 2 = Smaller area with incomplete data

Data Record

1-2 Country identification number 3 Series number 4-5 Area identification number (00 = entire country) 6 Urban/rural (0=total; 1=urban; 2=rural) (See country-specific definitions of urban areas) 7-8 Deck number (1 to n on data records, where n is the total number of years of data for the area) 9-12 Year of data For the following variables, either 0 or blank indicates a missing value. Decimal points are entered in the data (except for population, cols. 60-64.) 15-19 Index of total fertility (If) (x.xxx) 20-24 Index of marital fertility (Ig) (x.xxx) 25-29 Index of non-marital fertility (Ih) (x.xxx) 30-34 Index of marital status (Im) (x.xxx) (See definition of fertility indices) 35-39 Infant mortality rate (IMR) (x.xxx) (See country-specific definitions of infant mortality) 40-44 Singulate mean age at marriage ( xx.x) (See country-specific definitions of singulate mean age of marriage) 45-49 Proportion of females ever-married at ages 20-24 (x.xxx) (See country-specific exceptions ) 50-54 Proportion of females ever-married at age 50 (x.xxx) (See country-specific exceptions ) 55-59 Proportion of females widowed or divorced at age 50 (x.xxx) (See country-specific exceptions ) 60-64 Population (in thousands) 65-69 Proportion of population living in urban areas (x.xxx); given only for total population records (col. 6 = 0) (.001 indicates less than or equal .001; blank or zero indicates missing value.) (See country-specific definitions of urban areas, not necessarily the same as definition used for col. 6 above.)
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