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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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Pakistan, Province 1998 [Level 1, GIS] (GEO1_PK1998)

Data file: PAK1998_PHC-H-H

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Type: Discrete
Start: 123
End: 125
Width: 3
Range: -
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
001 North-West Frontier Province
002 Fata
003 Punjab
004 Sindh
005 Baluchistan
006 Islamabad
007 Northern areas
008 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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Definition
GEO1_PK1998 identifies the household's province within Pakistan in 1998. Provinces are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_PK1998 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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