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HES field name County of residence
Field rescty
Class Geographical
Length and format 2n
Availability
Description
This field contains a code that defines the county of residence of the patient. It is derived from the patient's postcode in the field homeadd.
Value

00 = Unitary authority
09 = Bedfordshire
11 = Buckinghamshire
12 = Cambridgeshire
13 = Cheshire
15 = Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
16 = Cumbria
17 = Derbyshire
18 = Devon
19 = Dorset
20 = Durham
21 = East Sussex
22 = Essex
23 = Gloucestershire
24 = Hampshire
26 = Hertfordshire
29 = Kent
30 = Lancashire
31 = Leicestershire
32 = Lincolnshire
33 = Norfolk
34 = Northamptonshire
35 = Northumberland
36 = North Yorkshire
37 = Nottinghamshire
38 = Oxfordshire
39 = Shropshire
40 = Somerset
41 = Staffordshire
42 = Suffolk
43 = Surrey
44 = Warwickshire
45 = West Sussex
46 = Wiltshire
47 = Worcestershire

S = Scotland
U = England
W = Wales
X = Foreign (from 1990-91 onwards)
Y = Not known
Z = Northern Ireland

Data cleaning
Not applicable (derived by rule 1200)

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