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A fully synthetic livestock movement data file, created to serve as example input to movenet's reformat_data() function. It is inspired by and includes data fields typically found in ScotEID's Scottish pig movement datasets.

Format

A UTF-8-encoded, comma-separated (csv) text file with 5,001 rows (incl. 1 header row) and 19 columns:

movement_reference

Unique numeric identifier of the movement.

foreign_reference, lot_no

Additional identifiers (character strings).

lot_date

Date at which lot_no was assigned, using DD/MM/YYYY format (readr date format specification %d/%m/%Y).

departure_date, arrival_date

Movement dates, using YYYYMMDD format (readr date format specification %Y%m%d). Either column can be used as the date data field, required in movenet-format movement data.

qty_pigs

Movement weight/quantity (number of pigs moved). This column corresponds to the weight data field, required in movenet-format movement data.

qty_doa

Number of pigs dead on arrival.

fci_declaration

Food chain information declaration (numeric).

dep_assurance_no

A numeric assurance identifier of the originating keeper or holding.

dep_name, dep_address, dep_postcode

Additional identifiers (character strings) of the originating keeper or holding.

departure_cph

Unique identifier of the originating holding; a character string in the format of a UK County Parish Holding (CPH) number, This column corresponds to the from data field, required in movenet- format movement data.

dest_assurance_no

A numeric assurance identifier of the destination keeper or holding.

dest_name, dest_address, dest_postcode

Additional identifiers (character strings) of the destination keeper or holding.

dest_cph

Unique identifier of the destination holding; a character string in the format of a UK County Parish Holding (CPH) number. This column corresponds to the to data field, required in movenet-format movement data.

Source

The content of this dataset was generated by random number and text generation, using UK-inspired data formats (e.g. County Parish Holding (CPH) identifiers). It does not correspond to or derive from any real movement data.