In what would now be called a moment of male bonding the renegade bank clerk, Henry Holland (played by Alec Guinness), tenderly asks his co-conspirator, "May I call you Alfred?"That surname code had governed social intercourse in the English-speaking world for centuries.
The linkage strategy involved two blocks, the first used phonetic surname code (soundex) in combination with first initial and the second selected record pairs for comparison on date of birth and sex [ 6].
This database contains the following non-named information: surname soundex code, forename initial, date of birth, sex, and the first part of the postcode of residence, as well as data concerning risk activities.
Date of birth, surname (using soundex codes to allow for variations in spelling), forename, address and full postcode were used to link.
Date of birth, surname (using soundex codes to allow for variations in spelling), forename, address and full postcode, which were available in both data sets, albeit not always recorded identically, were used to link the census number to the CHI.
Linkage was then based on sex, Soundex (an anonymised phonetic code for surname [ 20]) and day, month and year of birth only.
The Scottish HIV Database (Goldberg et al, 1992) holds data on all persons who have tested HIV antibody positive and/or been diagnosed with AIDS in Scotland since the early 1980s; data include date of birth, initials, soundex code of surname, AIDS-defining illness and dates of first HIV antibody positive test, AIDS diagnosis and death.
In analyses in which those with Portuguese surnames were temporarily coded as "nonwhite," SMRs were similar to those in the current analysis (results not shown).
The arrival of significant numbers of women in previously mostly male institutions created a problem for the old code of mutual surname use.
BUSINESS DAY The Common Sense column on Saturday, about inequities in the United States tax code, misstated the surname of a co-author of the book "America: Who Really Pays the Taxes".
The Common Sense column on Saturday, about inequities in the United States tax code, misstated the surname of a co-author of the book "America: Who Really Pays the Taxes".
