Latin American Census Data: El Salvador, 2007

This collection comprises seven geospatial datasets from El Salvador's Censos Nacionales 2007, collected by the Dirección General de Estadística y Censos (DIGESTYC) and documented and restructured by East View Cartographic, Inc. as part of a partnership with IPUMS International titled the Global Census Archive. The collection includes six Shapefile polygon layers organized by thematic category — Demographic, Economic, Housing, Migration, Social, and Transportation — at the municipal administrative level (ADM2), plus the source ESRI Geodatabase from which the thematic layers were derived. All data covers 273 municipalities with 1,162 total attribute variables across six thematic tables. Demographic indicators include sex, age, and birth date; economic indicators cover employment status, type of work, and benefits received; housing indicators document ownership status, household materials, number of people per household, amenities, cooking facilities, and availability of internet or television services; migration indicators include year of arrival in El Salvador, place of residence, and place of work; social indicators encompass educational attainment, literacy, disability status, ethnicity, access to email, and language spoken at home; and transportation indicators cover car and motorcycle ownership. All variable names were translated from Spanish, with field name prefixes used to organize attributes by theme (D = Demographic, E = Economic, H = Housing, M = Migration, S = Social, T = Transportation). Refer to the metadata and documentation for original and translated codebooks and methodology.