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Demographic and Health Survey 2008 - IPUMS Subset

Ghana, 2008
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GHA_2008_DHS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service, and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Sep 19, 2018
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Urban-rural status (W_URBAN)

Data file: GHA2008-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 236
End: 236
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
URBAN/RURAL ______

URBAN 1
RURAL 2
Categories
Value Category
2 Rural
1 Urban
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
URBAN (V025) indicates whether the person's de facto residence was in an urban or rural location. The definition of urban varies across countries. See Comparability.

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Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography, general Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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