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Flow Chart For the Construction of Thai 1970-80-90 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 THAILAND 1970-80-90 MERGED FILE

Detailed description of the files on the flow chart below
 
 

(Original                                       TH70POP.DAT                                     TH80POP.DAT                                 TH90POP.DAT
Census File, ASCII)                      [Codebook]                                                  [Codebook]                                              [Codebook]
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                                                    |                                                      |                                                  |
                                                    |                                                      |                                                  |
                                                                    V                                                                       V                                                                V
                                              Fortran program                                     Fortran program                                     Fortran program
                                                    |                                                      |                                                  |
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                                                                    V                                                                      V                                                                 V
(Standard File,                          TH70STD.DAT                                               TH80STD.DAT                                TH90STD.DAT
 women matched                        [Documentation]                                            [Documentation]                                    [Documentation]
with husband and)                                     |                                                                        |                                                                   |
 children, ASCII)                                      |                                                                        |                                                                   |
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                                                                    V                                                                      V                                                                 V
                                     th70std.sps                                      th80std.sps                          th90std.sps
                                                    |                                                      |                                                  |
                                                    |                                                      |                                                  |
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                                                    |                                                      |                                                  |
                                                                    V                                                                      V                                                                 V
(Standard File,                     TH70STD.POR                                               TH80STD.POR                                TH90STD.POR
women matched                                         |                                                                        |                                                                   |
with husband and)                                     |                                                                        |                                                                   |
children, PORTABLE)                            |                                                                        |                                                                   |
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                                                                    V                                                                      V                                                                 V
                                                   =================================================
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                                                                                                                                             V
                                                                                                                          t789cat.sps
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                                                                                                                                             V
(Concatenated                                                                                              T789CAT.POR
(Portable file)                                                                                                                     |
                                                                                                           |
                                                                                                           |
                                                                                                           |
                                                                                                                                             V
                                                                            TCON789.POR---------------? t789mrg.sps
                                                  (contextual file)                                  |
                                                                                                           |
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                                                                                                                                             V
(Merged 70-80-90 Ferttlity File)                                                                T789MRG.POR
                                                                                                                                [Codebook]