Demographic and Health Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

Nepal, 2016

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Reference ID

NPL_2016_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Ministry of Health, Nepal; New ERA; and ICF., Minnesota Population Center

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

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Created on

May 01, 2020

Last modified

May 14, 2020

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Population density 2020 (C_POPDENSITY_2020)

Data file: NPL2016-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 4144

End: 4150

Width: 7

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Value	Category
-000998	Missing

Description

Definition

POPDENSITY_2020 reports the population density - people per square kilometer of land area - within a 5 kilometer circular buffer around each DHS cluster location, in 2020. The population density statistics are available for the following years: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020. POPDENSITY_2020 is available for every IPUMS-DHS sample with GPS data. POPDENSITY_2020 can be used as an indicator of urban versus rural status, with the cut-off levels for these categories decided by the researcher, and greater consistency in measurement than the DHS URBAN variable. Values for POPDENSITY_2020 are based on population projections from the results of the 2010 round of censuses, which occurred between 2005 and 2014.

Please see the User Note on Using IPUMS-DHS Contextual Variables: POPDENSITY_2020 [URL omitted from DDI.] for more information about this variable, including data sources and methodology. This variable, like the other IPUMS-DHS contextual variables, is based on sources outside The DHS Program, with values around DHS sample cluster points calculated by IPUMS-DHS staff.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Social Variables -- TOPICS	IPUMS

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