Fifth Housing and Population Census Pakistan - IPUMS Subset

Pakistan, 1998

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PAK_1998_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Population Census Organization, IPUMS

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DHS-IPUMS-I Pakistan regions, 1973-2012 [consistent boundaries, GIS] (DHS_IPUMSI_PK)

Data file: PAK1998_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 144

End: 144

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Punjab (includes Islamabad Capital Territory)
2	Sindh
3	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North West Frontier Province)
4	Balochistan
5	Gilgit Baltistan (Federally Administered Northern Areas)
6	Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
7	Azad, Jammu and 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.

Description

Definition

DHS_IPUMSI_PK provides geographic codes for Pakistan that match those in the DHS and IPUMS-International databases. This variable can be used to link contextual area data from IPUMS-DHS to IPUMS-International or vice versa. The codes in DHS_IPUMSI_PK indicate the major administrative unit in which the household was enumerated or surveyed.

GIS shapefiles for Pakistan can be downloaded here.

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