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| ====== Sections ====== | ====== Sections ====== | ||
| - | [[Start|Lifelines]] variables are organized per theme in 10 main sections and ~200 subsections.\\ | + | [[Start|Lifelines]] variables are organized per theme in 13 main sections and ~230 subsections.\\ |
| - | The 10 sections are: | + | The 13 sections are: |
| - | - [[Demographics]] | + | - [[Children & adolescents]] |
| - | - [[Diseases & Symptoms]] | + | - [[Demographics]] |
| - | - [[Elderly]] | + | - [[Diseases & Symptoms]] |
| - | - [[Family health]] | + | - [[Elderly]] (variables that were specifically collected in participants aged 65+ years old) |
| - | - [[Lifestyle & environment]] | + | - [[Family health]] |
| + | - [[Lifestyle & environment]] | ||
| - [[Medical treatment]] | - [[Medical treatment]] | ||
| - [[Mental health]] | - [[Mental health]] | ||
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| - [[Reproduction & development]] | - [[Reproduction & development]] | ||
| - [[Wellbeing & subjective health]] | - [[Wellbeing & subjective health]] | ||
| + | - [[Secondary & linked variables]] | ||
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| + | ===== Primary and alternative (sub)sections ===== | ||
| - | Note that some subsections could fall under more than one section (i.e., "alcohol use" could be seen as a subsection of "lifestyle" or of "nutrition", and "mental illness" could fall under "diseases & symptoms" or "mental health"). Similarly, individual variables may fit in more than one subsection. | + | Note that some subsections could fall under more than one section (i.e., "alcohol use" could be seen as a subsection of "lifestyle" or of "nutrition", and "mental illness" could fall under "diseases & symptoms" or "mental health"). Similarly, individual variables may fit in more than one subsection. |
| - | Lifelines __always asigns a primary section and subsection to a variable__, but may asign a secondary section and/or subsection to facilitate the findability of the variable in the online data catalogue. | + | Lifelines __always asigns a primary section and subsection to a variable__, but may asign a second, alternative (sub)section to facilitate the findability of the variable in the online data catalogue. |
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| + | ===== Default variables ===== | ||
| + | Some Lifelines variables are provided by default in every issued dataset. As a result, these variables are not visible in the data-catalogue. An overview of the default variables can be found [[default_variables|here]]. | ||
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| + | ===== Changes in variable names ===== | ||
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| + | Note that we may occasionally change a variable name, if there is a valid reason to do so (i.e. the original name is deemed confusing, too informal, unexpected, inconsistent, or incorrect). You may find a full list of changed variable names following this link: [[changed variable names]]. | ||
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| + | ===== Unfixable variables ===== | ||
| + | Seldomly, we find variables that contain mistakes or inconsistencies. Most of the time these mistakes or inconsistencies will be corrected, but not always. You may find a full list of unfixable variables following this link with an explanation as to why they will not be fixed: [[unfixed variables]]. | ||
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