Variable Naming Conventions for Race and Ethnicity Supplement

• The first character of each variable name is one of the following:
  
  • H - Household item
  • G - Geography item
  • *P - Person item (includes adult items, child items, and armed forces items)
    

    * There is no need to distinguish adult, child, and armed forces items in the variable names in this system. The recode PRPERTYP tells you what category the person is in.
    

• The second character of each variable name is one of the following:
  
  • E - Edited item
  • U - Unedited item
  • X - Allocation flag
  • W - Weight
  • R - Recode
    

• The third character of each Supplement variable is 'S'
  

• The fourth character of each Supplement variable is 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' or 'D' corresponding to panels 1 - 4, respectively, of the supplement. For example, variables beginning PUSA are from the first panel, and those beginning in PUSB are from the second panel, etc.
  

• The remaining characters describe the variable or question number.
  

• For multiple entry items, the file contains a separate variable for each possible response. Each item has the same descriptive name but a number is added as the last digit. For example, Question PUSB4A allows separate entries for up to 5 races. The item names are PUSB4A1, PUSB4A2, PUSB4A3, etc.

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  Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
  Author: Brian Kojetin-BLS/ORE
  Contact: (ask.census.gov) CPS Help-Census/DSD/CPSB
  Last revised: July 16, 1997
  URL: http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/racethn/1995/snamconv.htm