Description

GEO3_ ET2007 identifies the household's wereda within Ethiopia in 2007. Weredas are the third level administrative units of the country, after zones. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO3_ ET2007 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Ethiopia 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

Weredas with populations less than 20,000 were regionalized (combined) with neighboring weredas within the same region/zone to create units with populations greater than 20,000.

The 2007 Ethiopian sample had a special region (zone1, zone2, and zone3) as one of its regions. According to the 2007 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia, the special region comprised national parks, forests, and boarding schools including university dorms with greater than 100 persons. There are person counts for the special region but the weredas, zones, and the special region is not mappable.

Universe

Availability

• Ethiopia: 2007