Description

GEO1_RU2002 identifies the household's regions (referred to as federal subject) within Russia in 2002. Regions are the first level administrative units of the country. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO1_RU2002 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 of any country refer to GEOLEV1, and GEOLEV2. More information on IPUMS-International geography can be found here.

Comparability — General

Missing regions: The 2002 sample is missing data on two regions.

• Nenets Autonomous Region
• Chukotka Autonomous Region

Universe

Availability

• Russia: 2002