Codes and Frequencies
Description
GEO1_RU identifies the household's regions (referred to as federal subject) within Russia in all sample years. Regions are the first level administrative units of the country. GEO1_RU is spatially harmonized to account for political boundary changes across census years. Some detail is lost in harmonization; see the comparability discussion. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_RU can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.
The full set of geography variables for Russia 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
Where boundaries changed over time, units were harmonized to create units with boundaries that remain stable over time.
Boundary changes and confidentiality issues:
- Aginsky Buryat District was merged with Chita Oblast in 2008 to form Zabaykalsky Krai
Universe
- All households
Availability
- Russia: 2002, 2010
