Mexican Personal Identifiers

Introduction

The function clean_mx_curp() cleans a column containing Mexican personal identifier (CURP) strings, and standardizes them in a given format. The function validate_mx_curp() validates either a single CURP strings, a column of CURP strings or a DataFrame of CURP strings, returning True if the value is valid, and False otherwise.

CURP strings can be converted to the following formats via the output_format parameter:

• compact: only number strings without any seperators or whitespace, like “BOXW310820HNERXN09”

• standard: CURP strings with proper whitespace in the proper places. Note that in the case of CURP, the compact format is the same as the standard one.

• birthdate: split the date parts from the number and return the birth date, like “1875-03-16”.

• gender: get the person’s birth gender (‘M’ or ‘F’).

Invalid parsing is handled with the errors parameter:

• coerce (default): invalid parsing will be set to NaN

• ignore: invalid parsing will return the input

• raise: invalid parsing will raise an exception

The following sections demonstrate the functionality of clean_mx_curp() and validate_mx_curp().

An example dataset containing CURP strings

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "curp": [
            'BOXW310820HNERXN09',
            'BOXW310820HNERXN08',
            '7542011030',
            '7552A10004',
            '8019010008',
            "hello",
            np.nan,
            "NULL",
        ],
        "address": [
            "123 Pine Ave.",
            "main st",
            "1234 west main heights 57033",
            "apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan",
            "robie house, 789 north main street",
            "1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015",
            "(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles",
            "hello",
        ]
    }
)
df

	curp	address
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles
7	NULL	hello

1. Default clean_mx_curp

By default, clean_mx_curp will clean curp strings and output them in the standard format with proper separators.

from dataprep.clean import clean_mx_curp
clean_mx_curp(df, column = "curp")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	BOXW310820HNERXN09
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	NaN
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	NaN
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	NaN
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	NaN
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	NaN
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

2. Output formats

This section demonstrates the output parameter.

standard (default)

clean_mx_curp(df, column = "curp", output_format="standard")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	BOXW310820HNERXN09
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	NaN
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	NaN
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	NaN
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	NaN
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	NaN
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

compact

clean_mx_curp(df, column = "curp", output_format="compact")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	BOXW310820HNERXN09
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	NaN
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	NaN
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	NaN
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	NaN
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	NaN
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

birthdate

clean_mx_curp(df, column = "curp", output_format="birthdate")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	1931-08-20
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	NaN
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	NaN
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	NaN
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	NaN
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	NaN
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

gender

clean_mx_curp(df, column = "curp", output_format="gender")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	M
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	NaN
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	NaN
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	NaN
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	NaN
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	NaN
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

3. inplace parameter

This deletes the given column from the returned DataFrame. A new column containing cleaned CURP strings is added with a title in the format "{original title}_clean".

clean_mx_curp(df, column="curp", inplace=True)

	curp_clean	address
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.
1	NaN	main st
2	NaN	1234 west main heights 57033
3	NaN	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan
4	NaN	robie house, 789 north main street
5	NaN	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles
7	NaN	hello

4. errors parameter

coerce (default)

clean_mx_curp(df, "curp", errors="coerce")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	BOXW310820HNERXN09
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	NaN
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	NaN
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	NaN
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	NaN
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	NaN
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

ignore

clean_mx_curp(df, "curp", errors="ignore")

	curp	address	curp_clean
0	BOXW310820HNERXN09	123 Pine Ave.	BOXW310820HNERXN09
1	BOXW310820HNERXN08	main st	BOXW310820HNERXN08
2	7542011030	1234 west main heights 57033	7542011030
3	7552A10004	apt 1 789 s maple rd manhattan	7552A10004
4	8019010008	robie house, 789 north main street	8019010008
5	hello	1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015	hello
6	NaN	(staples center) 1111 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles	NaN
7	NULL	hello	NaN

4. validate_mx_curp()

validate_mx_curp() returns True when the input is a valid CURP. Otherwise it returns False.

The input of validate_mx_curp() can be a string, a Pandas DataSeries, a Dask DataSeries, a Pandas DataFrame and a dask DataFrame.

When the input is a string, a Pandas DataSeries or a Dask DataSeries, user doesn’t need to specify a column name to be validated.

When the input is a Pandas DataFrame or a dask DataFrame, user can both specify or not specify a column name to be validated. If user specify the column name, validate_mx_curp() only returns the validation result for the specified column. If user doesn’t specify the column name, validate_mx_curp() returns the validation result for the whole DataFrame.

from dataprep.clean import validate_mx_curp
print(validate_mx_curp('BOXW310820HNERXN09'))
print(validate_mx_curp('BOXW310820HNERXN08'))
print(validate_mx_curp('7542011030'))
print(validate_mx_curp('7552A10004'))
print(validate_mx_curp('8019010008'))
print(validate_mx_curp("hello"))
print(validate_mx_curp(np.nan))
print(validate_mx_curp("NULL"))

True
False
False
False
False
False
False
False

Series

validate_mx_curp(df["curp"])

0     True
1    False
2    False
3    False
4    False
5    False
6    False
7    False
Name: curp, dtype: bool

DataFrame + Specify Column

validate_mx_curp(df, column="curp")

0     True
1    False
2    False
3    False
4    False
5    False
6    False
7    False
Name: curp, dtype: bool

Only DataFrame

validate_mx_curp(df)

	curp	address
0	True	False
1	False	False
2	False	False
3	False	False
4	False	False
5	False	False
6	False	False
7	False	False