Census of the Population 1851 - IPUMS Subset

United Kingdom [Great Britain], 1851

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GBR_1851_PHC-GBR_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Secretary of State, IPUMS

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Sep 03, 2025

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Age change indicator (UK1851C_AGEINF)

Data file: GBR1851_PHC-GBR-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 288

End: 288

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
	not altered
1	altered because the contents of the original field was non numeric
2	altered because person recorded as head of household and married and age less than 16
3	altered because person recorded an occupation and age less than 10
4	altered because person recorded age less than 1

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

This variable denotes whether the age that was originally recorded, is altered or not. Codes used are 0 meaning not altered; 1 meaning altered because the contents of the original field was non-numeric, thus 6m is transformed to 0.5 and the code is updated to 1; code 2 is invoked if the given relationship is a head of household and marital status is ever-married and the given age is less or equal to 15 then age is reset as missing. Code 3 is invoked when an individual has a recorded relationship which denotes an occupation and the age is given as less than 10. Code 4 is invoked when an individual has an age less than 1. In these cases age is reset as missing

Universe

United Kingdom 1851 (2%) [Great Britain]: All persons

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