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Flow Chart For the Constructionfor the Construction of Malaysia 1970-80 Merged Analysis Files

This flow chart is intended to assist personnel and others with access to the project data and program files to understand the construction of the final analysis dataset. Each of the data files is represented in
upper case letters and each of the program files is represented in lower case letters with the extension sps after the file name.
 

CONSTRUCTION OF THE MALAYSIA 1970-80 MERGED FILE

Brief description of the files on the flow chart below
 

(Original                                  MALAY70.DAT                                         MALAY80.DAT
Census File, ASCII,                    [Codebook]                                                 [Codebook]
Persons of all ages)                         |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                                    V                                                                       V
                                                     Fortran program                                           Fortran program
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                                    V                                                                      V
(Standard File,                     MALAY70STD.DAT                                    MALAY80STD.DAT
women matched                     [Documentation]                                        [Documentation]
with husband and)                                     |                                                                        |
children, ASCII)                                       |                                                                        |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                                    V                                                                      V
                                   malay70std.sps                       malay80std.sps
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                    |                                                      |
             MCON78.POR ------------>    |            MCON78.POR  ------->       |
               (contextual file)                |                  (contextual file)                |
                                                                    V                                                                      V
(Standard File,                     MALAY70STD.POR                                    MALAY80STD.POR
women matched                                         |                                                                        |
with husband and)                                     |                                                                        |
children, PORTABLE)                            |                                                                        |
                                                    |                                                      |
                                                                    V                                                                      V
                                                   ==========================
                                                                               |
                                                                               |
                                                                               |
                                                                               |
                                                                                                        V
                                                                                           m78mrg.sps
                                                                                |
                                                                                |
                                                                                |
                                                                                |
                                                                                                          V
(Merged 70-80 Ferttlity File)                               MALAY78MRG.POR
                                                                                                [Codebook]