Population and Housing Census 2000

Ghana, 2000

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GHA-GSS-PHC-2000-v1.0

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Ghana Statistical Service

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Nov 21, 2008

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Urban or Rural code (Urbrur)

Data file: Population

Overview

Valid: 189868

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 2

Type: Continuous

Decimal: 0

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 2

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Question pretext

URBRUR is a derived variable

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Urban	83114	43.8%
2	Rural	106754	56.2%

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.

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

Urban-Rural classification: URBRUR
Variable derived from the population size of localities. All localities with a total population size of 5,000 or more were classified as URBAN, otherwise, it is RURAL.

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