South African Census 1985

South Africa, 1985

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Urban/rural (urb_rura)

Data file: SA Census 1985 Area_c_v1.2

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 4

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
0	Urban (White area)
1	Urban (Non-White area)
2	Rural (White area)
3	Rural (Non-White area)

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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The type of area in which the respondent resides i.e. urban or rural area. In this version, version 1.2 corrections have been made to the value labels for the urban/rural variable (urb_rura) to indicate urban white area, urban non-white area, rural white area and rural non-white area, in the data files for which this information was available (Areas c, e, f, g, h).

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