Description

GEO1_MN2010 identifies the household's province within Mongolia in 2010. Provinces are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_MN2010 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Mongolia 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

Provinces with very low populations were regionalized (combined) with neighboring provinces to create units with larger populations.

Confidentiality issues:

• Govisumber is combined with Dornogovi for confidentiality reasons.

Universe

Availability

• Mongolia: 2010