6602.0 - Microdata: Longitudinal Labour Force, Australia, 2008-10 Quality Declaration 
ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 10/12/2012  First Issue
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MONTH IDENTIFIERS

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SURVEY MONTH ID

This identifier is an unique ID number for each month of the period January 2008 to December 2010. It relates to the labour force survey conducted in that month.

Each person from a private dwelling can have up to eight records (rows) worth of data. The Survey month ID identifies the month related to each particular record of data.

People in special dwellings (see Residence Status [URSTATC]) only have one record of data, and the Survey month ID refers to the month that this data was collected (see Household ID [ABSHID]).

The Survey month ID is either 3 or 4 digits in length. The last 2 digits relate to the calendar month, where '01' is January, '02' is February and so on up to '12' for December. The leading digit or digits relate to the year, where 8 is 2008, 9 is 2009 and 10 is 2010.

These identifiers form the basis of the CURFs structure, which is explored in more detail in File Structure and Identifiers.



Identifier:ABSMID

Level:Person

Source:LFS

Frequency:Not applicable

Population:All

Categories:
801
January 2008
802
February 2008
803
March 2008
...
...
811
November 2008
812
December 2008
901
January 2009
902
February 2009
...
...
1011
November 2010
1012
December 2010



Related Information

Labour Force Survey Standard Products and Data Item Guide: Reference Week (cat. no. 6103.0)
Labour Force, Australia: Explanatory Notes - 3. Labour Force Survey (cat. no. 6202.0)
Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods: 20. Labour Force Survey - 20.8 and 20.17 (cat. no. 6102.0.55.001)



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