1970 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1970

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Reference ID

MYS_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of Statistics Malaysia, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Area of GEOLEV1 unit in square kilometers (AREAMOLLWGEO1)

Data file: MYS1970_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 101

End: 110

Width: 10

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Description

Definition

AREAMOLLWGEO1 indicates the area in square kilometers of the major administrative unit in which the household was enumerated. The major administrative unit of the household is identified by the GEOLEV1 variable.

The area of units in GEOLEV1 is calculated using Mollweide's equal area projection. For a full set of geography variables refer to 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.

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

AREAMOLLWGEO1 is a 10-digit string variable listing the area in square kilometers.

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