# Linked representative samples "realprop\_1" variable

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**Created:** [July 22, 2020, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/linked-representative-samples-realprop-1-variable/3658 "2020-07-22T19:14:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/linked-representative-samples-realprop-1-variable/3658/3 "2020-07-30T23:52:19Z")

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Hi Kari,

Thank you very much for your reply. I’m pretty sure the 999,999’s recorded in the 1860-1880 and 1870-1880 samples should indeed be recoded as zero, but it would be nice to have a confirmation of that (and perhaps a link to some documentation?), since I didn’t see any documentation online. This is for a scholarly article and I just want to fully satisfy the reviewers on this point.

Thanks again for looking into this and take care,

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