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South African Census 1985

South Africa, 1985
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Urban/rural (urb_rura)

Data file: SA Census 1985 Area_d_v1.2

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Width: 1
Range: 0 - 4
Format: Numeric

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Categories
Value Category
0 Rural
2 Urban
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.

Description

Definition
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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