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Demographic and Health Survey 1999 - IPUMS Subset

Nigeria, 1999
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NGA_1999_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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National Population Commission [Nigeria] and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Type of place of residence (M_URBANMN)

Data file: NGA1999-M.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 211
End: 211
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
LARGE TOWN/MEDIUM TOWN/SMALL TOWN/VILLAGE ___

(Large Towns are places with over 1 million population; Medium Towns are places with between 50,000 and 1 million population; Small Towns are places both between 20,000 and 50,000 population while places with less than 20,000 are villages.)

Large Town = 1
Medium Town = 2
Small Town = 3
Village = 4
Categories
Value Category
1 Urban
2 Rural
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
For men's samples, URBANMN (MV025) indicates whether the man's de facto residence was in an urban or rural location. The definition of urban varies across countries. See Comparability.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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