Documentation - Description of Codebooks
What is a Codebook?
A codebook consists of variables and a reference to their location within a data file and the type of a variable.
How to read a Codebook
All codebooks are in the following pattern:
"Variable Name" "Format" "Variable Description"
Where the "Format" is specified as follows:
ABBBCCC
- "A" is either N (numeric) or C (character)
- "BBB" is the field length (001, etc)
- "CCC" is the decimal places (000, 001, etc)
Codebooks