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--- sections [2022/11/28 14:16]
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   - [[Secondary & linked variables]]
-Note that some subsections could fall under more than one section (i.e., "alcohol use" could be seen as a subsection of "lifestyle" or of "nutrition", and "mental illness" could fall under "diseases & symptoms" or "mental health"). Similarly, individual variables may fit in more than one subsection.
+===== Primary and alternative (sub)sections =====
-Lifelines __always asigns a primary section and subsection to a variable__, but may asign a secondary section and/or subsection to facilitate the findability of the variable in the online data catalogue.
+Note that some subsections could fall under more than one section (i.e., "alcohol use" could be seen as a subsection of "lifestyle" or of "nutrition", and "mental illness" could fall under "diseases & symptoms" or "mental health"). Similarly, individual variables may fit in more than one subsection.
+Lifelines __always asigns a primary section and subsection to a variable__, but may asign a second, alternative (sub)section to facilitate the findability of the variable in the online data catalogue.
+===== Changes in variable names =====
+Note that we may occasionally change a variable name, if there is a valid reason to do so (i.e. the original name is deemed confusing, too informal, unexpected, inconsistent, or incorrect). You may find a full list of changed variable names following this link: [[changed variable names]].

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