Description

GEO3_RW2012 identifies the household's sector within Rwanda in 2012. Sectors are the third level administrative units of the country, after districts and provinces. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO3_RW2012 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site.

The full set of geography variables for Rwanda 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

There are no comparability issues for GEO3_RW2012. However, users should note that administrative units for Rwanda were reorganized from the previous census.

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

Universe

Availability

• Rwanda: 2012