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DESCRIPTON OF CONSTRUCTION FILES FOR THE THAI 1970-80 MERGED FILE
 

TH70POP.DAT

This is a datafile of the 1970 .02 sample of the census data and is located on the CSDE Workstation in the directory: /seafert/thailand/data/census70/TH70POP.DAT (to work with the data users should uncompress the file). This is also the source file used by the program th70fortran.txt in the creation of the matched woman-child-husband dataset TH70STD.DAT. Documentation about the census data are located in the 1970 Population Census of Thailand .02 Sample - Master File: Data Documentation and Codebook. The files contains 772,251 unweighted individual records. Each person selected for inclusion in the sample file has been assigned a weight factor that includes adjustments for smapling fraction by geographical stratam and for age-sex composition of the municipal and non-municipal areas. Data include individual demographic information as well as household characteristics.

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TH80POP.DAT

This is a data file of the 1980 .01 sample of the census data and is located on the CSDE Workstation in the directory: /seafert/thailand/data/census80/TH80POP.DAT (to work with the data users should uncompress the file). This is also the source file used by the program th80fortran.txt in the creation of the matched woman-child-husband dataset TH80STD.DAT. Documentation about the census data are located in the 1980 Population Census of Thailand .01 Sample - Master File: Data Documentation and Codebook. The files contains 388,080 unweighted individual records. Each person selected for inclusion in the sample file has been assigned a weight factor that includes adjustments for smapling fraction by geographical stratam and by municipal and non-municipal areas. Data include individual demographic information as well as household characteristics.

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TH70STD.DAT

This is a data file which includes information about women 15-49 years old whose data are then matched to their children's data (age 10 and under) and their husband's data (if they are married). The data are drawn from 1970 Thai Census data. The file is a column delimited raw dataset (see 1970 standardized data record list). Any unmatched children in the household are attached to the first eligible woman in the household (for the matching algorithm refer to Cho et al. 1986) . Click here to look at the special fortran program for matching women with children and husbands.

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TH80STD.DAT

This is a data file which includes information about women 15-49 years old whose data are then matched to their children's data (age 10 and under) and their husband's data (if they are married). The data are drawn from 1980 Thai Census data. The file is a column delimited raw dataset (see 1980 standardized data record list). Any unmatched children in the household are attached to the first eligible woman in the household (for the matching algorithm refer to Cho et al. 1986) . Click here to look at the special fortran program for matching women with children and husbands.

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th70std.sps

This is an spss program file that reads the TH70STD.DAT data to recode variables and create a 1970 analysis file: TH70STD.POR. The data are located on the /seafert/thailand/data/census70/ directory and are in compressed format. To use the data users must uncompress the data.

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th80std.sps

This is an spss program file that reads the TH80STD.DAT data to recode variables and create a 1980 analysis file: TH80STD.POR.  In particular, provinces are recoded to match the 1970 boundary definitions (for more information see the Combined Census and Survey Data Files: Thailand, 1970-1990 or the Southeast Asia Fertility Transitions Project Documentation. ). The data are located on the /seafert/thailand/data/census80/ directory and are in compressed format. To use the data users must uncompress the data.

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TH70STD.POR

This is a portable spss format data file of the matched women-child-husband data (derived from TH70STD.DAT). The file was created using the th70std.sps program located on the /seafert/thailand/create/census70 directory. For complete information on the contents of this data set refer to the Thailand 1970 standardized data dictionary. The data are located on the /seafert/thailand/data/census90 directory.

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TH80STD.POR

This is a portable spss format data file of the matched women-child-husband data (derived from TH80STD.DAT). The file was created using the th80std.spsprogram located on the /seafert/thailand/create directory. For complete information on the contents of this data set refer to the Thailand 1980 standardized data dictionary. The data are located on the /seafert/thailand/data/census80 directory.

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t78cat.sps

This is a program to create a concatenated dataset for all three censuses and output a portable fomat spss data file T78CAT.POR.  The program is located on the /seafert/thailand/create/merged directory.

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T78CAT.POR

This is a concatenated dataset for all three censuses. The data are located on the /seafert/thailand/data/merged directory. For complete information on the contents of this data set refer to the Thailand 1970,80,90 concatenated data dictionary.

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t78mrg.sps

This is a program which merges the concatenated 1970,80,90 data with the provincial or contextual data, TCONT789.POR. The program is located in the /seafert/thailand/create/merged directory.

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TCON78.POR

The contextual data are a combination of aggregate information as well as global information for each province in Thailand. Sources for the data are numerous. The data are located on the /seafert/thailand/data/contextuals directory.

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T78MRG.POR

This a merged dataset of the contextual data (TCON78.POR) and the concatenated file (T789CAT.POR). The data are located on /csde/seafert/thailand/data/merged directory. For complete information on the contents of this data set refer to the Thailand Merged data dictionary.

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