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Unit-control variable codes
t05	Administrative status of the central place, 1990
There are 14 values, defined by position in a cross-tabulation of two dimensions. 
One has to do with municipal/zhen status, the other with status as a capital.

cc = central city						
Province Prefecture County 
Not a						
 capital  capital   capital
capital 
Cc of municipal province			    1
Cc of municipal prefecture			    2	     4
Cc of prefectural municipality			    3	     5
Cc of municipal county					     6	     8
Cc of county municipality				     7	     9
Zhen							    10	    11
12
Town not designated shi or zhen				    13 
14

(Even though they may not be used for records in the tabular dataset, values 13 and 
14 are needed to code small towns that appear on our vectorized maps.)

t06  Type of central place
1  Cc of shi as of midyear 1990
2  Zhen or qu at midyear but cc of shi by endyear 1990
3  Zhen (usual type with urban residential committee), apart from (2)
4  Formally a zhen but with no P under urban residential cmt.
5  Qu or diqu (counted as zhen)
6  Xiang seat
7  Paichusuo (police station) (counted as zhen)
8  Mine
9  Site of factory or firm 

PROVISIONAL MACROREGIONAL ASSIGNMENTS
Since central places along interregional frontiers may be oriented to more than one
regional economy, it is necessary to have separate binary variables for each of the 
regions/subregions.

t09  Inner Asia

t11  Manchuria Proper
t12  Manchuria: Tumen Border
t13  Manchuria: Northeast Border
t14  Manchuria: North Border

t21  North China: North
t22  North China: South
t23  North China: East

t31  Northwest China: Wei-Fen
t32  Northwest China: Upper Yellow River

t41  Upper Yangzi Proper
t42  Upper Yangzi: Upper Han Basin

t51  Middle Yangzi Proper
t52  Middle Yangzi: Gan Basin
t53  Middle Yangzi: Yuan Basin
t54  Middle Yangzi: Guilin

t61  Lower Yangzi Proper
t62  Lower Yangzi: Linhai
t63  Lower Yangzi: Wenzhou

t71  Southeast Coast: Min Basin
t72  Southeast Coast: Zhang-Quan
t73  Southeast Coast: Han Basin

t80  Lingnan

t91  Yungui Proper
t92  Yungui: Guiyang
t93  Yungui: South border
t94  Yungui: Southwest Border


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