Codes and Frequencies
Description
GEO2_CU identifies the household's municipality within Cuba. Municipalities are the second level administrative units of the country, after provinces. GEO2_CU 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 GEO2_CU can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.
The full set of geography variables for Cuba 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 officially-defined municipalities have populations less than 20,000, they have been regionalized (combined) with neighboring municipalities.
Boundary changes for GEO2_CU are too numerous to list here, but users should be aware that there were changes over time.
Universe
- All households
Availability
- Cuba: 2002, 2012
