XIII National Population and II Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1964

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COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS

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Colombia, Metropolitan area (METROCO)

Data file: COL1964_PHC-H-H

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Type: Discrete

Start: 96

End: 97

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
00	Not a metropolitan area
01	Barranquilla
02	Bogotá D.C.
03	Bucaramanga
04	Cali
05	Cartagena
06	Centro occidente
07	Cúcuta
08	Manizales
09	Medellín y Valle de Aburrá
10	Santa Marta
99	Unknown

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

METROCO indicates the metropolitan area in Colombia in which the household was enumerated for the 1964 - 2005 sample years. METROCO is harmonized by name and does not account for boundary changes over time.

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

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