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1980 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Malaysia, 1980
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Reference ID
MYS_1980_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 (MY1980A_URBAN1)

Data file: MYS1980_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 179
End: 179
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="MY80A036 MY80A037 MY80A043 MY80A044">1.<br />(a) State ____<br /><br />(b) Admin. District ____<br /><br />(c) Census District ____<br /><br />(d) Circle Number ____<br /><br />(e) Enumeration Block ____<br /><br />(f) Locality (Sahah and Sarawak)<br /><br />2. Address: ________<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
1 Metropolitan (75,000 persons and over)
2 Urban, Large (10,000 - 74,999 persons)
3 Urban, Small (1,000 - 9,999 persons)
4 Rural (999 persons or fewer)
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 lives in metropolitan, urban large, urban small or rural area.
Universe
Malaysia 1980: All households

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