South African identity number
ID za_id
DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft
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South African identity number: 13 digits made of the date of birth (YYMMDD), four digits, a citizenship digit, a digit that is usually 8 and a check digit.
- Categories
- Personally identifiable information, Person related
- Countries
- South Africa
- Languages
- English
- W3C DPV
pd:OfficialID- Microsoft Purview
South Africa identification number- python-stdnum
stdnum.za.idnr- Quality
- 75/100 · missing: examples, negative example, translation
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Nightfall AI, python-stdnum
Regular expression
^\d{13}$Python re syntax.
Sources
- doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/sit-defn-south-africa-identification-number
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_identity_card
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/za_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/ZA/persons/za_id.yamlon GitHub