Description

GEO1_PK identifies the household's division of residence within Pakistan in the 2010 through 2019 MICS surveys. Divisions are the secondary level of geography in Pakistan, after provinces.

The first three digits of GEO1_PK provide the country code; the next (fourth) digit specifies the province codes 1 to 8; 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 include the spatiotemporally harmonized district variable GEO2_PK, and the province specific variables which specify boundaries in the individual surveys. Below we list the provinces and the specific variables for the provinces.

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: GEO2_PK_KP16, GEO2_PK_KP19
• Federally Administered Tribal Areas: GEO2_PK_KP19
• Balochistan: GEO2_PK_BL10, GEO2_PK_BL19
• Punjab: GEO3_PK_PJ
• Sindh: GEO1_PK_SD14, GEO1_PK_SD18, GEO2_PK_SD14_18
• Islamabad: Not surveyed
• Gilgit-Baltistan: use GEO1_PK and GEO2_PK
• Azad Jammu and Kashmir: Not surveyed

A GIS map (in shapefile format) corresponding to GEO1_PK 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 province (first administrative level) of Pakistan and not all provinces were surveyed in the 2010 through 2019 surveys. Below we list the provinces and the survey years for the provinces.

• 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

GEO1_PK has been spatiotemporally harmonized to provide spatially consistent boundaries across all the Pakistan surveys. Note that not all survey years will have values associated with the unit.

Boundaries changed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh divisions between MICS surveys. The changes in boundaries are listed below.

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA): The Federally Administered Tribal Areas was merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018. Several districts and regions were added as a result of that.
• Sindh: Saheed Benazirabad was formed from parts of Sukkur and Mirpur Khas.

Universe

Availability

• Pakistan (Balochistan): 2010, 2019
• Pakistan (Punjab): 2011, 2014, 2017
• Pakistan (Sindh): 2014, 2018
• Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan): 2016
• Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa): 2016, 2019