1990 Housing and Population Census - IPUMS Subset

Mauritius, 1990

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Reference ID

MUS_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Central Statistical Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Mauritius, District 1990 - 2011 [Level 1; consistent boundaries, GIS] (GEO1_MU)

Data file: MUS1990_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 108

End: 113

Width: 6

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
480011	Port Louis
480012	Pamplemousses
480013	Rivière du Rempart
480014	Flacq
480015	Grand Port
480016	Savanne
480017	Plaines Wilhems
480018	Moka
480019	Black River
480020	Rodrigues, Agaléga Islands, Saint Brandon

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

GEO1_MU identifies the household's district within Mauritius in all sample years. Districts are the first level administrative units of the country. GEO1_MU is spatially harmonized to account for political boundary changes across census years. Some detail is lost in harmonization; see the comparability discussion. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_MU can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Mauritius 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.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Geography: F-N Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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