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PERNUM
Person number

Availability
Colombia: 1964, 1973, 1985, 1993
France: 1962, 1968, 1975, 1982, 1990
Kenya: 1989, 1999
Mexico: 1960, 1970, 1990, 2000
United States: 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990
Vietnam: 1989, 1999

Universe
All persons.


Description
PERNUM numbers all persons within each household consecutively (starting with "1" for the first person record of each household). When combined with YEAR, COUNTRY, DATANUM, and SERIAL, PERNUM uniquely identifies each person in the IPUMS-International database.

Comparability - General
This variable is fully comparable across all samples.