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HES Data Dictionary
| HES field name | Birth order | ||||
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| Field | birorder | ||||
| Class | Maternity | ||||
| Length and format | 1n or X | ||||
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| Description | |||||
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The position in the sequence of births. This item appears for each baby on multiple birth delivery records. From 1996-97 the same value (1) is used for a single birth or the first born of several. Up until March 2002, only the first six births were recorded. |
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| Value | |||||
1 = First, including single, birth 2 = Second 3 = Third 4 = Fourth 5 = Fifth 6 = Sixth 7 = Seventh 8 = Not applicable 9 = Not known: a validation error X = Not known |
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