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This dataset comprises syntax, to run in SPSS software, on the Census 2001 Household Controlled Access Microdata Sample (CAMS) Sample of Anonymised Records. The CAMS data are not included here, and prospective users will need to negotiate access to CAMS separately; further information may be found on the Office for National Statistics' Applying to use the controlled access microdata sample (CAMS) web page.

The syntax was developed as part of the research project 'Links between internal migration, commuting and inter-household relationships'. Further information about the project may be found at the ESRC award page.

The syntax runs on CAMS data to create derived variables denoting persons in households which contained one or more migrants. For each migrant, Boolean variables may be created indicating, for example, whether that person is related to anyone else in the household, is the spouse/partner of anyone else in the household, is the sibling of anyone else in the household, and so on. Separate sets of these variables may be derived for relationships to all persons in the household, relationships to other migrants, and relationships to other migrants in the same 'moving group'. Within the original project, the derived variables were constructed for migrants only (about 11% of all CAMS records).


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The syntax creates derived variables concerned with household composition, family relationships, migration, stepfamilies, grandparents/grandchildren.