Description

GEO1_PG2000 identifies the household's province within Papua New Guinea in 2000. Provinces are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_PG2000 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

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

Comparability — General

There are no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• Papua New Guinea: 2000