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XI General Population and Housing Census, 1990 - IPUMS Harmonized Subset

Mexico, 1990
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MEX_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI), IPUMS
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Mexico, Size of locality (SIZEMX)

Data file: MEX1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 129
End: 129
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Less than 2,500 inhabitants
2 2,500 to 14,999 inhabitants
3 15,000 to 99,999 inhabitants
4 100,000 or more inhabitants
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
SIZEMX identifies the population of the locality within Mexico in all sample years. The unharmonized source variables from 1995, 2000, and 2015 samples provide greater detail between 15,000 and 100,000 inhabitants. Unharmonized source variables from 1990, 2005, and 2005 samples provide more detail between 100,000 and more inhabitants.

The full set of geography variables for Mexico 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.

concept

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