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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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Urban/rural (MY1991A_URBAN)

Data file: MYS1991_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 199
End: 199
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h1">Identification particulars</span></p>

<p>State (Name and code) ____ _ _ </p>

<p>Administrative district/jajahan (Name and code) ____ _ _</p>

<p>Census district number ____ _ _</p>

<p>Census circle number ____ _ _</p>

<p>Enumeration block number ____ _ _
Categories
Value Category
1 Metropolitan (75,000 persons and over)
2 Urban, large (10,000 - 74,999 persons)
3 Urban, small (1,000 - 9,999 persons)
4 Rural (9,999 persons or fewer)
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 whether the household is located in metropolitan, large urban, small urban or rural area.
Universe
Malaysia 1991: All households

concept

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