Description

GEO2_PE1993 identifies the household's province within Peru in 1993. Provinces are the second level administrative units of the country, after departments. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_PE1993 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Peru 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

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

Universe

Availability

• Peru: 1993