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Re: definition of urban areas [message #14579 is a reply to message #12695]

Sat, 21 April 2018 22:45

kingx025
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Registered: August 2016
Location: Minneapolis. Minnesota

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The IPUMS-International project has consulted census documentation from national statistical offices and put online whatever information they had about the definition of Urban in various national censuses. You can find the information online here:
https://international.ipums.org/international-action/variabl es/URBAN#comparability_section

If you want to impose a more consistent definition of urban status, consider using the contextual variable on population density in IPUMS-DHS (available at idhsdata.org), where you can define whatever threshold(s) you prefer based on population density:
https://www.idhsdata.org/idhs-action/variables/POPDENSITY#de scription_section

Miriam King

Dr. Miriam King
IPUMS-DHS Project Manager (www.idhsdata.org)

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