Description

For all condition-event link records, PIDJ is a within-Dwelling Unit (DU) person identifier assigned in sampling or by the computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) instrument on the condition-event link record. PIDJ must be combined with DUIDJ and PANELJ to uniquely identify persons across all MEPS data. IPUMS MEPS offers the constructed variable MEPSIDJ, created by concatenating the values of DUIDJ, PIDJ, and PANELJ.

Please see the user note for more information on the relationship between Dwelling Units, families, Reporting Units, and persons.

PIDJ is a 3-digit numeric variable.

Comparability

This variable is fully comparable across years.

Universe

Availability

• 1996-2021

Weights

• No weights are available for this variable. Please refer to PIDJ for more information.

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