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Sex, date of birth, age, date and duration of interview, municipality (LSNa008)
Other files about same topic: LSNa002, LSNa010, LSNa011

sex sex respondent
What is your date of birth? day ... month ... year 19.. The answer you provided is different from the information we received from the population register. There are several reasons why this may be the case. For example, we may have made errors in our own files. What is the correct date of birth?Wat is uw geboorte datum? dag ... maand ... jaar 19.. Het antwoord dat u hiervoor heeft gegeven betreffende uw geboortedatum is verschillend van de geboortedatum dat wij doorgekregen hebben uit de burgerlijke stand. Dat kan verschillende oorzaken hebben, bijvoorbeeld fouten bij het overbrengen van de gegevens uit het bevolkingsregister. Wat is de juiste geboortedatum?

bdate birth date (Dates have the format yymmdd.)
aage age at day of interview
Age is computed as the difference between date of interview and date of birth.
An integer variable can be obtained by
compute aage= rnd(aage).

bycohort 5-years-cohort birthyear

aplace municipality of the respondent

aidate date of interview (questionnaire basic demographics)
Question to be anwered by the interviewer.
The respondent was interviewed on more than one day. What was the reason?
Volgens de administratie heeft u het interview op meer dagen gedaan. Waarom was dat?
Information stored in database LSNa008.dbf.

aiweek # week interview
Note: Most of the interviews were completed before July 7, 1992.

aiseq sequence# interview for interviewer

adurq duration questionnaires in minutes
Computation of this variable from original variables:
get file 'LSNa093.sys'.
select if (atimeq>0 and aremark<6).
aggregate /outfile='temp.sys' /presorted /break respnr /adurq 'duration questionnaires'=sum(atimeq).
Note: breaks of 10 minutes or more between two sections of the questionnaire are not counted; breaks within a section of the interview are counted.

acouple R forms married couple /w other R