Codes and Frequencies
Description
GEO2_SS identifies the household's county within South Sudan in 2008. Counties are the second level administrative units of the country, after states. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_SS can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.
The full set of geography variables for South Sudan 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 counties have populations less than 20,000, they have been regionalized (combined) with neighboring counties.
Universe
- All households
Availability
- South Sudan: 2008
