Codes

This is a 27-character string variable.

Description

HHID is an IPUMS-constructed variable that uniquely identifies households. HHID is a concatenation of enumeration area ID number (EAID), a count variable starting from one corresponding to each value of HHIDORIG, year (YEAR), and round (ROUND).

For cases where HHIDORIG is missing, HHID is a concatenation of enumeration area ID (EAID), household structure number (STRUCTURNO), household number within structure (HHNUM), year (YEAR), and round (ROUND).

HHID does not allow users to link records of households that have been interviewed in more than one round of survey of PMA.

A different construction is used for cases in which STRUCTURNO and/or HHNUM are missing, or if EAID is not available. See the Comparability tab for more details.

Comparability — Index

Comparability

In some samples, STRUCTURNO and/or HHNUM are not available or not complete, in which case IPUMS uses a different method to construct HHID. A small number of cases did not have values for the original household identification number HHIDORIG, STRUCTURNO, or HHNUM. For these cases, EAID is concatenated with 10 digits of zeroes.

For Nigeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo samples when the same survey round is split into two samples by geographic region (for example, Nigeria 2015 Round 2), an additional digit was added to both HHID and PERSONID so that these variables uniquely identify households and individuals.

Universe

Availability

• Burkina Faso: 2014-2018, 2020-2022
• Congo (Democratic Republic): 2013-2021
• Cote d'Ivoire: 2017-2018, 2020-2022
• Ethiopia: 2014-2019, 2021
• Ghana: 2013-2017
• India: 2016-2018, 2020-2022
• Indonesia: 2015-2016
• Kenya: 2014-2021
• Niger: 2015-2018, 2020, 2022-2023
• Nigeria: 2014-2021
• Uganda: 2014-2022