Description

GEO2_KH1998 identifies the household's district within Cambodia in 1998. Districts are the second level administrative units of the country, after provinces. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_KH1998 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Cambodia 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

Districts with populations less than 20,000 (based on the most recent sample year) were regionalized (combined) with neighboring districts within the same province to create units with populations greater than 20,000.

The 1998 sample is missing data for 3 districts - Samlout, Veal Veaeng, and Anlong Veaeng.

Universe

Availability

• Cambodia: 1998