The output costraint document defines the levels and variables used in report.
An example of the document contents is given below, for a comprehensive description of all the possible content options see the schema document. Data continuation and abbreviated content expressed as …:
The root level tag contains a reference to the schema document which is used to validate the content of the XML document:
<output_constraints xmlns="http://latitude.mmvar.helsinki.fi/simo"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.simo-project.org/simo ../schemas/Output_constraint.xsd">
Output constraint includes the repoting data levels and variables. Here from level comp_unit and stratum will be reported attributes SC MAIN_SP Age and SP Age BA, respectively:
…
   <data_level>
       <name>comp_unit</name>
       <var_list>SC MAIN_SP Age</var_list>
   </data_level>
   <data_level>
      <name>stratum</name>
      <var_list>SP Age BA</var_list>
   </data_level>
   …
</output_constraints>