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General Census of Population and Housing, 1976 - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 1976
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CMR_1976_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Cameroon, Province 1976 [Level 1, GIS] (GEO1_CM1976)

Data file: CMR1976_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 123
End: 125
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
001 Centre-Sud
002 Est
003 Littoral
004 Nord
005 Nord-Ouest
006 Ouest
007 Sud-Ouest
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.

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Definition
GEO1_CM1976 identifies the household's province within Cameroon in 1976. Provinces are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_CM1976 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Cameroon 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.

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