Housing and Population Census, 1980-81 - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1981

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PAK_1981_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Pakistan, Administrative division 1981 [Level 2, GIS] (GEO2_PK1981)

Data file: PAK1981_PHC-H-H

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Type: Discrete

Start: 134

End: 139

Width: 6

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
001011	D. I. Khan
001012	Hazara
001013	Malakand
001014	Peshawar
003031	Bahawalpur
003032	Lahore
003033	Multan
003034	Rawalpindi
003035	Sargodha
004041	Hyderabad
004042	Karachi
004043	Sukkur
005051	Kalat
005052	Mekran
005053	Quetta
005054	Sibi
006061	Federal Capital Area
096096	Northern Areas
097097	Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
098098	Kashmir

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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GEO2_PK1981 indicates the household’s administrative division within Pakistan in 1981. Administrative divisions are the second level administrative units of the country, after provinces. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_PK1981 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site

The full set of geography variables for Pakistan 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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