Data Structure Component

Data Structure Component

Structures

The role of the Represented Variable in the context of a Data Structure.

A Data Structure Component can be an Attribute Component, Measure Component or an Identifier Component.

• Example of Attribute Component: The publication status of an observation such as provisional, revised.
• Example of Measure Component: age and height of a person in a Unit Data Set or number of citizens and number of households in a country in a Data Set for multiple countries (Dimensional Data Set).
• Example of Identifier Component: The personal identification number of a Swedish citizen for unit data or the name of a country in the European Union for dimensional data.