Description

GEO1_ PK_SD18 identifies the household's division of residence within the Sindh province of Pakistan in the 2018 MICS survey. Divisions are the secondary level of geography in Pakistan, after provinces.

The first three digits of GEO1_ PK_SD18 provide the country code; the next (fourth) digit specifies the province codes for Sindh; the last two digits specifies the division within the country. Leading zeros are used when the geographical unit within the country requires less than a two-digit code. Other geography variables for Pakistan includes spatiotemporally harmonized GEO1_PK and GEO2_PK, and sample specific geography for Sindh in GEO1_PK_SD14,and GEO2_PK_SD14_18.

A GIS map (in shapefile format) corresponding to GEO1_PK_SD18 is available on the GIS Boundary files page. The full set of geography variables for all MICS samples and countries can be found at IPUMS MICS Geography.

Comparability

Each MICS survey surveyed a separate division (first administrative level) of Pakistan and not all divisions were surveyed in the 2010 through 2019 surveys. Below we list the divisions and the survey years for the divisions.

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 2016, 2019
• Federally Administered Tribal Areas: 2019
• Punjab: 2011, 2014, 2017
• Sindh: 2014, 2018
• Balochistan: 2010, 2019
• Islamabad: Not surveyed
• Gilgit-Baltistan: 2016
• Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Not surveyed

Universe

Availability

• Pakistan (Sindh): 2018