Issue # and location
NA
Issue summary
How should the location_id be used to represent the location of a person? What level of information should be included when modeling the person’s location?
Convention type
Table
CDM table
PERSON
CDM field
location_id
Links to issue discussion
NA
Provenance of data
All
The ratified convention
The location_id in the PERSON table should represent the most granular level of information available for the person’s home address, or where they live the majority of the time.
This could represent anything from postal code or parts thereof, state, or county for example. Since many databases contain de-identified data, it is common that the precision of the location is reduced to prevent re-identification.
Date of ratification/published
Downstream implications
No