Description

GEO1_ES1991 identifies the household's communities and autonomous cities in 1991. Communities and autonomous cities are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_ES1991 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Spain can be found in the IPUMS International Geography variables list. For cross-national geographic analysis on the first and second major administrative level of any country refer to GEOLEV1, and GEOLEV2. More information on IPUMS-International geography can be found here.

Comparability — General

Communities and autonomous cities with populations less than 20,000 (based on the most recent sample year) were regionalized (combined) with neighboring communities and autonomous cities to create units with populations greater than 20,000.

Universe

Availability

• Spain: 1991