2000 Housing and Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 2000

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MUS_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS

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Mauritius, District 2000 [Level 1, GIS] (GEO1_MU2000)

Data file: MUS2000_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 114

End: 116

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
011	Port Louis
012	Pamplemousses
013	Rivière du Rempart
014	Flacq
015	Grand Port
016	Savanne
017	Plaines Wilhems
018	Moka
019	Black River
021	Rodrigues, Outer Islands

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

GEO1_MU2000 identifies the household's district within Mauritius in 2000. Districts are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_MU2000 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Mauritius 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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Concept

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

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