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5th Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

South Sudan, 2008
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SSD_2008_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Southern Sudan Centre for Census, Evaluation and Statistics, IPUMS
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South Sudan, State 2008 [Level 1; consistent boundaries, GIS] (GEO1_SS)

Data file: SSD2008_PHC-H-H

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Type: Discrete
Start: 117
End: 122
Width: 6
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
728071 Upper Nile
728072 Jonglei
728073 Unity
728081 Warrap
728082 Northern Bahr El Ghazal
728083 Western Bahr El Ghazal
728084 Lakes
728091 Western Equatoria
728092 Central Equatoria
728093 Eastern Equatoria
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
GEO1_SS identifies the household's state within South Sudan in 2008. States are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_SS can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for South Sudan 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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