ALGAE Data Dictionary: Later life stage sensitivity variables (algae6400-algae6404)

An automated protocol for assigning early life exposures to longitudinal cohort studies

ALGAE Data Dictionary: Later life stage covariates (algae6400-algae6404)

by Kevin Garwood

Context of Variables

Location of Result File

You will find these variables in a file having a name that fits the form: 
res_later_stage_sense_variables_[Date stamp].csv
which will be found in the directory: 
later_life/results/sensitivity_variables

Example Result File

See here.

Variable Naming Conventions

All the variables in this section begin with algae64, which indicates that they describe life-stage specific sensitivity variables in the later life analysis.

Variable Dictionary

Variable Description
algae6400_person_id An anonymised or pseudonymised identifier which represents a study member. ALGAE uses this variable to link data together for a given study member.
algae6401_life_stage The name of a life stage. For example, "T1" may be the name of the Trimester 1 life stage.
algae6402_contention_days Total number of contention days in the given life stage.
algae6403_distinct_addr The total number of distinct addresses that a study member occupied during a given life stage.
algae6404_moves The total number of moves a study member made during a given life stage. days.