# Output from vcftools missingness

I'm new to data filtering on vcf data and vcftools.
I performed variant calling on my dataset, CHR22, homo sapiens. I'd like to remove sites that are missing in more than 5% of individuals.

vcftools --missing-site --vcf updated_ids68.vcf


This gives me a file with out.lmiss. That is missingness per locus.
I had 68 individuals in my input vcf file.

CHR     POS     N_DATA  N_GENOTYPE_FILTERED     N_MISS  F_MISS
22      16848278        106     0       30      0.283019
22      16848492        68      0       68      1
22      16849180        69      0       67      0.971014
22      16849229        68      0       68      1
22      16849376        133     0       3       0.0225564
22      16849476        132     0       6       0.0454545
22      16851734        126     0       36      0.285714
22      16852588        123     0       13      0.105691


I'm unable to understand the output here. What does third column - N_DATA tell?
133, 126 doesn't tell that this is number of individuals if my input had 68 individuals only.

VCFtools (0.1.15)
fileformat=VCFv4.1

• My initial answer mentioned that, but that doesn't seem to hold true for all rows. Consider the following rows from their table: 22 16849476 132 0 6 0.0454545 22 16851734 126 0 36 0.285714 The N_DATA and N_MISS instead sum to 138 and 162, respectively. Jan 29 '19 at 14:48