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Population Census 1996

South Africa, 1996
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ZAF_1996_PHC_v01_M
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Statistics South Africa
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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Unique household identifier (hhid)

Data file: SA Census 1996 Hhold_v01

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Width: 36
Range: -
Format: character

Description

Definition
This variable reflects a code unique to each household within province, magisterial district, district council and transitional local council.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation
The unique household identifier uses the household number variable to uniquely define households within their geographically specific tranches (province, magisterial district, district council and transitional local council). There are many unique household IDs as observations in this data file.

Others

Notes
This is the variable used to merge the person and household data files.
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