1991 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1991

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MYS_1991_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

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Area of GEOLEV2 unit in square kilometers (AREAMOLLWGEO2)

Data file: MYS1991_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 110

End: 119

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

AREAMOLLWGEO2 indicates the area in square kilometers of the second major administrative unit in which the household was enumerated. The second major administrative unit of the household is identified by the GEOLEV2 variable.

The area of units in GEOLEV2 is calculated using Mollweide's equal area projection. For a full set of geography variables refer to 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.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Geography: Global Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

AREAMOLLWGEO2 is a 10-digit string variable listing the area in square kilometers.

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