Description

GEO2_UA2001 identifies the household's raion within Ukraine in 2001. Raions are the second level administrative units of the country, after regions. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_UA2001 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Ukraine 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

Besides raions, urban areas (cities) are sometimes second level administrative units, based on their population and socio economic importance.

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

Universe

Availability

• Ukraine: 2001