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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

Niger, 1998
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NER_1998_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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CARE International [Niger] and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
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Proportion of land area used for pastureland (circa 2000) (W_PASTURELAND)

Data file: NER1998-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 2237
End: 2242
Width: 6
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
-00998 Missing
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
PASTURELAND reports the proportion of land that is used as pasture, for a 10-kilometer circular buffer around each DHS cluster location. The pasture area statistics reported in PASTURELAND are based on agricultural censuses and remotely sensed imagery circa 2000.

PASTURELAND is available for every IPUMS-DHS sample with GPS data.

PASTURELAND, like the other IPUMS-DHS contextual variables, is calculated and based on sources external to the DHS data. For more information on IPUMS-DHS contextual variables and how they are constructed, refer to the documentation [URL omitted from DDI.] on these variables.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Agricultural Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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