Description

GEO3_MM2014 identifies the household's township within Myanmar in 2014. Townships are the third level administrative units of the country, after districts and states. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO3_MM2014 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Myanmar 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

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

Universe

Availability

• Myanmar: 2014