Demographic and Health Survey 2004 - IPUMS Subset

Lesotho, 2004

Reference ID

LSO_2004_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) [Lesotho], Bureau of Statistics (BOS) [Lesotho], and ORC Macro., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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May 01, 2020

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Lesotho ecological zones, 2004-2014 [integrated; GIS] (C_GEOALT_LS2004_2014)

Data file: LSO2004-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 240

End: 240

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

IDENTIFICATION

PLACE NAME ___________________

NAME OF HOUSEHOLD HEAD ______________

EA NUMBER_____

HOUSEHOLD NUMBER____

LESOTHO ECOLOGICAL ZONE

LOWLANDS 1
FOOTHILLS 2
MOUNTAINS 3
SENQU RIVER VALLEY 4

DISTRICT

01=BUTHA-BUTHE
02=LERIBE
03=BEREA
04=MASERU
05=MAFETENG
06=MOHALE'S HOEK
07=QUTHING
08=QASHA'S NEK
09=MOKHOTLONG
10=THABA-TSEKA

URBAN/RURAL

URBAN 1
RURAL 2

NAME AND LINE NUMBER OF WOMAN ___

Value	Category
1	Lowlands
2	Foothills
3	Mountains
4	Senqu River Valley

Description

Definition

GEOALT_ LS2004_2014 indicates the ecological region of Lesotho where the respondent was interviewed. The variable is integrated to yield units with consistent boundaries across samples.

Each sample also has its own non-integrated geography variable.

An integrated GIS map (in shapefile format) for Lesotho can be downloaded here [URL omitted from DDI.].

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Integrated geography Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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