1999 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Vietnam, 1999

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Reference ID

VNM_1999_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Bureau of The Central Steering Committee for the 1999 Population and Housing Census. General Statistics Office., IPUMS

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Area of GEOLEV1 unit in square kilometers (AREAMOLLWGEO1)

Data file: VNM1999_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Start: 75

End: 84

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

AREAMOLLWGEO1 indicates the area in square kilometers of the major administrative unit in which the household was enumerated. The major administrative unit of the household is identified by the GEOLEV1 variable.

The area of units in GEOLEV1 is calculated using Mollweide's equal area projection. For a full set of geography variables refer to IPUMS International Geography variables list. For cross-national geographic analysis on the first and second major administrative level refer to GEOLEV1 and GEOLEV2. More information on IPUMS-International geography can be found here.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Geography: Global Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

AREAMOLLWGEO1 is a 10-digit string variable listing the area in square kilometers.

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