Codes and Frequencies
Description
GEO2_KG2009 identifies the household's district (rayon) or city (shaar) within Kyrgyzstan in 2009. Districts are the second level administrative units of the country, after regions. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_KG2009 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.
The full set of geography variables for Kyrgyzstan 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
Districts with populations less than 20,000 (based on the most recent sample year) were regionalized (combined) with neighboring districts within the same region to create units with populations greater than 20,000.
Universe
- All households
Availability
- Kyrgyzstan: 2009
