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Demographic and Health Survey 1992 - IPUMS Subset

Namibia, 1992
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Reference ID
NAM_1992_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Ministry of Health and Social Services [Namibia], Central Statistics Office [Namibia], and Macro International Inc., Minnesota Population Center
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
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May 01, 2020
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May 14, 2020
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Namibia regions, 1992 [GIS] (W_GEO_NM1992)

Data file: NAM1992-W.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 232
End: 232
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
REGION

Northwest 1
Northeast 2
Central 3
South 4
Categories
Value Category
1 Northwest
2 Northeast
3 Central
4 South
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
GEO_NM1992 (V101_NM1992) indicates the region of Namibia where the respondent was interviewed. DHS regions in the 1992 Namibia survey are equivalent to divisions.

Other sample years have their own sample-specific geography variables. There are also two integrated variable, GEO_NM1992_2013 and GEO_NM2000_2013, that provides spatially consistent units over time.

A GIS map for GEO_NM1992 (in shapefile format) can be downloaded from the DHS Program Spatial Data Repository [URL omitted from DDI.] Boundaries page.

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Single sample geography Variables -- TOPICS IPUMS
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