National Population and Housing Census 1978 - IPUMS Subset

Poland, 1978

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POL_1978_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistical Office, IPUMS

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Kind of locality in 1978 (PL1978A_LOCTY2)

Data file: POL1978_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 119

End: 119

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
	With 100 thousand inhabitants or more
1	50 to 99.9 thousand inhabitants
2	20 to 49.9 thousand
3	10 to 19.9 thousand
4	5 to 9.9 thousand
5	2 to 4.9 thousand
6	Less than 2 thousand inhabitants
9	Rural area

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

This variable indicates the kind of locality, defined in 1978 terms, which the person enumerated lives. The types of urban localities in 1978 were differentiated by the number of inhabitants.

Universe

Poland 1978: All households

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