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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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Urban/rural (MY1970A_URBAN)

Data file: MYS1970_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 187
End: 187
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v=" MY70A033 MY70A034 MY70A035 MY70A036 MY70A037 MY70A038">1.<br /><div class="i1">____ State<br />____ Admin. District<br />____ Census district<br />____ Circle number<br />____ Enumeration block number<br />____ Address</div><br /></svar></p>

<p>2. Address: ________
Categories
Value Category
1 Metropolitan urban
2 Other large urban
3 Other small urban
4 Rural
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
This variable indicates whether the household lived in metropolitan urban, other large urban, other urban small or rural setting.
Universe
Malaysia 1970: All households

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Concept
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