Description

GEO2_AT1981 identifies the household's ENUTS 3 within Austria in 1981. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is a standard administrative division of the European Union, and was developed by the EU. We are using ENUTS 3 as the second level administrative units of the country, after states. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_AT1981 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Austria 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

• Austria: 1981