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2015 Population and Housing Census - IPUMS Subset

Sierra Leone, 2015
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Reference ID
SLE_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Statistics Sierra Leone (SLL), IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
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Aug 01, 2025
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DHS-IPUMS-I Sierra Leone regions, 2004-2019 [consistent boundaries, GIS] (DHS_IPUMSI_SL)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 142
End: 142
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Eastern
2 Northern, North Western
4 Southern
5 Western
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
DHS_IPUMSI_SL provides geographic codes for Sierra Leone that match those in the DHS and IPUMS-International databases. This variable can be used to link contextual area data from IPUMS-DHS to IPUMS-International or vice versa. The codes in DHS_IPUMSI_SL indicate the major administrative unit in which the household was enumerated or surveyed.

GIS shapefiles for Sierra Leone can be downloaded here.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Geography: IPUMS-I, IPUMS-DHS Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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