Description

GEO2_MN2010 identifies the household's district within Mongolia in 2010. Districts are the second level administrative units of the country, after provinces. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_MN2010 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Mongolia 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 very low populations were regionalized (combined) with neighboring districts within the same province to create units with larger populations.

Universe

Availability

• Mongolia: 2010