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Housing and Population Census 1980-81 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1981
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PAK_1981_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Population Census Organization, Minnesota Population Center
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Pakistan, Province 1981 [Level 1, GIS] (GEO1_PK1981)

Data file: PAK1981-H-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 79
End: 81
Width: 3
Range: -
Format:

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Categories
Value Category
1 North-West Frontier Province
3 Punjab
4 Sindh
5 Baluchistan
6 Islamabad
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition
GEO1_PK1981 identifies the household's province within Pakistan in 1981. Provinces are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_PK1981 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Pakistan can be found in the IPUMS International Geography variables list. For cross-national geographic analysis on the first and second major administrative level of any country refer to GEOLEV1, and GEOLEV2. More information on IPUMS-International geography can be found here.

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Geography: M-Z Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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