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Demographic and Health Survey 2009 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2009
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LSO_2009_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho] and ICF Macro., Minnesota Population Center
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Urban-rural status (B_URBAN)

Data file: LSO2009-B.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 229
End: 229
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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