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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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Province, Sierra Leone (PROVSL)

Data file: SLE2015_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 141
End: 141
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 Eastern
2 Northern
3 Southern
4 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
PROVSL indicates the province in Sierra Leone in which the household was enumerated. It is the largest-scale geographic identifier available in the Sierra Leone samples.

The full set of geography variables for Sierra Leone can be found in the IPUMS International Geography variables list. For more detailed geographic boundaries on Sierra Leone, check GEO1_SL and GEO2_SL.

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: O-Z Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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