LANGUAGES
Data ID
File name: languages
File path: d:\north_central\Population\
File type: Arcview shapefile
Category: Population
Description: Boundaries of major languages
Status: Completed
Geographical area: north-central Namibia
Keywords: Languages

tribal areas
Date of last update: 1999/12/01
ID notes: Compiled from an analysis of the 1991 Population and Housing Census results, by identifying the main home

languages of people living in each enumeration area. The mapped results are most accurate in densely populated

areas where the enumeration areas are small and the spatial resolution is greatest. The results were checked by

overlaying the map with information on home languages of pupils at schools.
Location notes:
Data quality and organisation
Positional Accuracy: variable
Vector/Raster: Vector
Data quality notes: Resolution poor in sparsely populated areas
Spatial reference
Projection: Geodetic
Datum: Bessel
Spatial reference notes:
Fields
Field name Field description Field source/notes
ID unique identifier
TRIBAL_ARE Name of language group
Source/Distribution
Lineage/Source of Data: Environmental Profiles Project- see ID notes
Author of Data Source: Environmental Profiles Project
Contact: Environmental Profiles Project or Natural Resource Information Service (NRIS)
Online/Offline Address: Environmental Profiles Project,

Directorate of Environmental Affairs, P/Bag 13306, Windhoek,

Tel: 061 249015

www.dea.met.gov.na

OR

Natural Resource Information System (NRIS),

Ministry of Lands, Resettlement & Rehabilitation, P/Bag 5571, Oshakati

Email: nris@africaonline.com.na
Distribution notes: Unrestricted

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