cef_dict.md

Column #	Header	Format	Description
1	geoid_block	%015d	Census Tabulation Block ID, formed as the concatenation of codes for State, County, Tract, and Block
2	pik	N/A1	2010 CUF Protected Identification Key
3	sex	%1d	Binary sex
4	age	%d	Age in years
5	white	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if race includes White
6	black	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if race includes Black
7	aian	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if race includes American Indian or Alaskan Native
8	asian	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if race includes Asian
9	nhopi	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if race includes Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
10	sor	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if race includes Some Other Race
11	hisp	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if ethnicity was given as Hispanic or Latino
12	keep	%1d	Binary equal to 1 if a geoid_block-pik combination is unique within a geoid_block or, if there are duplicate records for a given geoid_block-pik, is equal to 1 if the record was selected for that geoid_block-pik. 'keep' is equal to 0 if either the pik is missing or if it was a duplicate record (by geoid_block-pik) that was not selected.
13	r_keep	%1.17f	Uniform random variable that was used to select a single record in the case of duplicate geoid_block-pik combinations
14	r	%1.17f	Uniform random variable used to sort cef records at different stages of reid matching

Footnotes

1. Formatting of the Protected Identification Key is considered sensitive ↩