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Demographic and Health Survey 2006 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2006
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NPL_2006_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
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Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) [Nepal], New ERA, and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Jan 16, 2021
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Population density 2020 (H_POPDENSITY_2020)

Data file: NPL2006-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2628
End: 2634
Width: 7
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
-000998 Missing
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
POPDENSITY_2020 reports the population density - people per square kilometer of land area - within a 5 kilometer circular buffer around each DHS cluster location, in 2020. The population density statistics are available for the following years: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. POPDENSITY_2020 is available for every IPUMS-DHS sample with GPS data. POPDENSITY_2020 can be used as an indicator of urban versus rural status, with the cut-off levels for these categories decided by the researcher, and greater consistency in measurement than the DHS URBAN variable. Values for POPDENSITY_2020 are based on population projections from the results of the 2010 round of censuses, which occurred between 2005 and 2014.

Please see the User Note on Using IPUMS-DHS Contextual Variables: POPDENSITY_2020 [URL omitted from DDI.] for more information about this variable, including data sources and methodology. This variable, like the other IPUMS-DHS contextual variables, is based on sources outside The DHS Program, with values around DHS sample cluster points calculated by IPUMS-DHS staff.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Social Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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