Third General Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Cameroon, 2005

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Reference ID

CMR_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau Central des Recensements et des Études de Population, IPUMS

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Sep 15, 2013

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Urban (CM2005A_URBAN)

Data file: CMR2005_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 193

End: 193

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
1	Rural
2	Urban

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.

Interviewer instructions

<svar a="all" v="CM05A028"><span class="em">Residential environment: </span>This includes urban environments and rural environments. The urban environment is all the higher defined cities together; all the villages grouped together make up a rural environment.<br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates whether the household is located in an urban or rural area.

Universe

Cameroon 2005: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Geography: A-E Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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