XIII National Population and II Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Colombia, 1964

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COL_1964_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Departmento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), IPUMS

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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Colombia, Municipality head town (MUNHDCO)

Data file: COL1964_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 98

End: 99

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
10	Head town
20	Not head town
21	Population center
22	Administrative center
23	Small village
24	Dispersed population
29	Not head town, unspecified
99	Unknown

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

MUNHDCO indicates the municipality head town in Colombia in which the household was enumerated. MUNHDCO is harmonized solely based on the names of the geographical unit. It does not take into account the changes that may have occurred in the political boundaries of the units.

The full set of geography variables for Colombia can be found in the 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.

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