census: Fictional census data

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Fictional census data

Description

This data set was created by Paula McLeod, Dick Heasman and Ian Forbes, ONS, for the ESSnet DI on-the-job training course, Southampton, 25-28 January 2011. It contains fictional data representing some observations from a decennial Census.

Usage

census

Format

A data.table with 25343 records. Each row represents one record, with the following columns:

• person_id – a unique number for each person, consisting of postcode, house number and person number,

• pername1 – forename,

• pername2 – surname,

• sex – gender (M/F),

• dob_day – day of birth,

• dob_mon – month of birth,

• dob_year – year of birth,

• hse_num – house number, a numeric label for each house within a street,

• enumcap – an address consisting of house number and street name,

• enumpc – postcode,

• str_nam – street name of person's household's street,

• cap_add – full address, consisting of house number, street name and postcode,

• census_id – person ID with "CENS" added in front.

References

McLeod, P., Heasman, D., Forbes, I. (2011). Simulated data for the ESSnet DI on-the-job training course, Southampton, 25-28 January 2011. https://wayback.archive-it.org/12090/20231221144450/https://cros-legacy.ec.europa.eu/content/job-training_en

Examples

data("census")
head(census)

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