Magnetic Tape or IBM-PC File
Tape format: EBCDIC Unlabelled, Blocksize: 1710, Logical Record Length: 342, Density: 1600 BPI
Disk Format: ASCII

CONTROL RECORD (FIRST DATA RECORD)

#	LEN	COLUMNS	FIELD	DESCRIPTION
1	1	1-6	ESEAB.	FILE NAME
2	6	7-8	STATE	STATE ABBREVIATION
3	1	9-14	DATE	PROCESS DATE OF TAPE GENERATION
4	2	15-20	MUMPS1	TAPE SERIAL NUMBER
5	2	21-342	BLANK	FILLER

STATE DATA RECORD (N DATA RECORDS)

#	LEN	COLUMNS	FIELD	DESCRIPTION
1	16	1-16	1A	CHILD'S FIRST NAME
2	16	17-32	1B	CHILD'S MIDDLE NAME
3	21	33-53	1C	CHILD'S LAST NAME
4	4	54-57	1C	CHILD'S SURNAME SUFFIX
5	40	58-97	24A	STREET ADDRESS FIRST HALF
6	40	98-137	24A	STREET ADDRESS SECOND HALF
7	27	138-164	24C	CITY OF RESIDENCE
8	2	165-166	24D	STATE OF RESIDENCE
9	9	167-175	24E	ZIP OF RESIDENCE
10	8	176-183	4A	DATE OF BIRTH
11	1	184-184	2	CHILD'S SEX
12	27	185-211	5C	CITY OF OCCURRENCE
13	21	212-213	CA	STATE OF BIRTH
14	16	214-229	9A	MOTHER'S FIRST NAME
15	16	230-245	9B	MOTHER'S MIDDLE NAME
16	21	246-266	9C	MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME
17	4	267-270	9C	MOTHER'S SURNAME SUFFIX
18	16	271-286	6A	FATHER'S FIRST NAME
19	16	287-302	6B	FATHER'S MIDDLE NAME
20	21	303-323	6C	FATHER'S LAST NAME
21	4	324-327	6C	FATHER'S SURNAME SUFFIX
22	1	328-328	LITERAL	CITIZENSHIP CODE (1)
23	1	329-329	LITERAL	BLANK
24	1	330-330	3A	MULTIPLE BIRTH (Y, N, BLANK)
25	1	331-331	ALPHA	FEEDBACK RELEASE (Y, N, BLANK)
26	11	332-342	LFN/SFN	BIRTH CERTIFICATE NUMBER

CONTROL RECORD (LAST DATA RECORD)

#	LEN	COLUMNS	FIELD	DESCRIPTION
1	1	1-6	ESEAB.	FILE NAME
2	6	7-8	STATE	STATE ABBREVIATION
3	1	9-14	DATE	PROCESS DATE OF TAPE GENERATION
4	2	15-20	MUMPS1	TAPE SERIAL NUMBER

Updated September 18, 1996 by RL Williams

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