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Demographic and Health Survey 1998 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 1998
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Reference ID
ZAF_1998_DHS_v01_M_v01_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
Department of Health [South Africa] 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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South Africa regions, 1998 [GIS] (C_GEO_ZA1998)

Data file: ZAF1998-C.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 238
End: 238
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
9 Northern Province
8 Mpumalanga
7 Gauteng
6 North West
5 KwaZulu Natal
4 Free State
3 Northern Cape
2 Eastern Cape
1 Western Cape
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_ZA1998 (V101_ZA1998) reports the region of South Africa where the respondent was interviewed, using provinces as the geographic unit.

Other South African sample years have their own sample-specific geography variables. The integrated geographic variable GEO_ZA1998_2016 provides spatially consistent units over time across South African samples.

A GIS map for GEO_ ZA1998 (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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