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Edition:
31 May 2012
(F) STRUCTURE OF FLAT ASCII FILES FOR POST DOCTORAL/RESEARCH
FELLOWS TO BE PREPARED BY INSTITUTIONS FROM 2012
1. GENERAL
SPECIFICATIONS FOR ASCII FILES TO BE PREPARED BY INSTITUTIONS
Records to be terminated preferably with a carriage return and line feed
(Hex 0D0A). A less preferred alternative
is a line feed only (Hex 0A).
No non-printing characters
to be included in any record, except for terminating carriage return and line
feed (Hex 0D0A) or line feed (Hex 0A).
No null record to be
included after the last data record.
Lengths of all the records in the one file to be the same.
In each record, the
"comments" field allows input of any optional alphanumeric text of
interest to the institution. This field
may be filled with spaces. The
VALPAC.Net database will treat this field as a text field during the importing
of data to its database.
File name: yyyyxxxPDRS.s (replace “yyyy”
with the submission year, "xxx" with the institution code, and "s"
by the submission number)
Sort order: Any order
Unique key: Element 095
|
Element name |
Field name |
Width |
Start column |
End column |
Data type |
|
|
095 |
Post
Doctoral Research Fellow number |
PDRFNUM |
15 |
1 |
15 |
Text |
|
008 |
South African identity
number |
SAIDNUM |
15 |
16 |
30 |
Text |
|
105 |
Post
Doctoral Research Fellow |
PSTDRFLW |
2 |
31 |
32 |
Text |
|
096 |
Name of doctoral qualification
obtained |
NQUALOBT |
65 |
33 |
97 |
Text |
|
097 |
Date when doctoral qualification
obtained |
DATEQUAL |
8 |
98 |
105 |
Numeric |
|
026 |
CESM category for first
(or primary) area of specialization (of doctoral qualification) |
CESMSPE1 |
6 |
106 |
111 |
Text |
|
011 |
Date of birth |
DOB |
8 |
112 |
119 |
Numeric |
|
012 |
Gender |
GENDER |
1 |
120 |
120 |
Text |
|
013 |
Race |
RACE |
1 |
121 |
121 |
Text |
|
014 |
Nationality |
NATIONAL |
3 |
122 |
124 |
Text |
|
049 |
Citizen-resident status |
CITIRES |
2 |
125 |
126 |
Text |
|
052 |
Home language |
HOMELANG |
4 |
127 |
130 |
Text |
|
098 |
Research field CESM |
CESMRESF |
6 |
131 |
136 |
Text |
|
015 |
Home postcode |
POSTCODE |
4 |
137 |
140 |
Text |
|
016 |
Disability status |
DISABIL |
10 |
141 |
150 |
Text |
|
099 |
Start date of contract |
CONTRACT |
8 |
151 |
158 |
Numeric |
|
100 |
Institution where doctoral Qualification obtained |
INSTNAME |
65 |
159 |
223 |
Text |
|
101 |
Funding Source 1 |
FUNDSRC1 |
2 |
224 |
225 |
Text |
|
102 |
Funding Source 2 |
FUNDSRC2 |
2 |
226 |
227 |
Text |
|
103 |
Funding Source 3 |
FUNDSRC3 |
2 |
228 |
229 |
Text |
|
104 |
Funding Source 4 |
FUNDSRC4 |
2 |
230 |
231 |
Text |
|
037 |
Staff Number |
STAFNUM (Supervisor or host at
Institution) |
15 |
232 |
246 |
Text |
|
|
Comments |
COMMENTS |
30 |
247 |
276 |
Text |