2000 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 2000

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Reference ID

MYS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

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Sep 29, 2011

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Urban area (MY2000A_URBAN)

Data file: MYS2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 195

End: 195

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Metropolitan urban (towns + built-up area with 75,000 persons and above)
2	Urban large (towns + built-up area with 10,000 - 74,999 persons)
3	Urban small (towns with 1,000 - 9,999 persons)
4	Rural towns (999 persons or less) + other areas

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 urban areas (metropolitan, large, or small) or rural areas (rural towns and other areas) the household is located.

Universe

Malaysia 2000: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Geography: F-N Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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