Output File Structure

Specifications for the fields. Numerical codes are shown in boldface; ordinals, for field position, are in standard type.

Population File
Marriage File
Extra File

Population file fields

1 Person id

2 Sex

0 Male
1 Female

3 Group

4 Next Scheuled Event (3, or Death, if already dead)

5 Date of birth

6 Mother's person-id (0 if from unrelated starting population)

7 Father's person-id (0 if from unrelated starting population)

8 Person id of next eldest sibling via mother (0 if from unrelated starting population)

9 Person id of next eldest sibling via father (0 if from unrelated starting population)

10 Person id of last-born child

11 Marriage id of last union

12 Marital status. Partners in broken cohabitations (or in cases where the cohabiting partner dies) revert back to their last marital status before the start of the cohabitation.

1 Single
2 Divorced
3 Widowed
4 Married
5 Cohabiting

13 Date of death

14 Fertility multipler
- For females, fertility multipliers in model: round(fmult*1000000)
- For females, otherwise:0
- For males:0
Population file format
Post-processing programs are mainly in C, so view the first column of the record as column 0 and the starting index as field 0. Fields are abbreviaton, start-column, end-column, index:
Marriage file fields
A single system applies to marriages and to more general unions.
- 1 Union id
- 2 Wife's person-id
- 3 Husband's person-id
- 4 Union start date
- 5 Union start date (0 = none)
- 6 Reason (current) union ended--shown by code:
  - 2 Divorce, marriages only
  - 3 Death, marriages only
  - 16 Null--marriage hasn't ended
  - 20 Null, but marriage is really a cohabitation
  - 21 Break off cohabitation
  - 22 Cohabitation followed by marriage (which has its own union structure)
  - 23 Cohabiting partner dies
- 7 Wife's prior union
- 8 Husband's prior union
Marriage file format
Post-processing programs are mainly in C, so view the first column of the record as column 0 and the starting index as field 0. Fields are abbreviaton, start-column, end-column, index:
Extra file fields
The number and format of the fields in the Extra file are constants specifed in the global variables file: there are i real variables and j integer variables, where both i and j are under user control.
- 1 Person id
- 2 First real value, if any (i > 0)
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- i + 1 Last real value, if any (i > 0)
- i + 2 First integer value, if any (j > 0)
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- i + j + 1 Last integer value, if any (j > 0)
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Output File Structure

Population file fields

Population file format

Marriage file fields

Marriage file format

Extra file fields