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Missing data codes

The following are the different missing codes used in the tabular datafiles associated with the ChinaA 1990 Census dataset.

-88888: Missing data but would expect unit to have reported.

-77777: Used for county-level units that were not included in 1990 census.

-66666: Used for Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan and islands under Taiwan administration.

-44444: Water body not under county-level administration (eg., Qinghai Lake).

-33333: Diaoyu dao, Huangwei yu and Chiwei yu.

-22222: Missing data (agricultural) though unit has relatively little agriculture, so absence not surprising (in contrast to -88888's).


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