Description

GEOALT_SL2016 indicates the district in Sierra Leone where the respondent was interviewed. Districts are the second administrative level of geography.

Other sample years have their own sample-specific geography variables. There is also an integrated variable, GEO_SL2008_2019, that provides spatially consistent units over time with less geographic detail (provinces). The first administrative level of geography, states, can be found in GEO_SL2016.

A GIS map for GEOALT_SL2016 (in shapefile format) can be downloaded from the DHS Program Spatial Data Repository Boundaries page.

Comparability

The 2016 survey corresponds to Malaria Indicators Survey (MIS).
GEOALT_SL2016 is a country- and sample-specific variable and has no comparability issues.

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