Assigning Official National Administration Unit Code to Vietnam GADM Shapefile 2018 at Ward Level

Hoai Son Nguyen (1, 2) , Minh Ha-Duong (3, 1)

1 CleanED - Clean Energy and Sustainable Development Lab
2 NEU - National Economics University (Ha Noi, Vietnam)
3 CIRED - centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement

This report assigns official national administration unit codes to Vietnam GADM Shapefile 2018 at ward level. The output is a new shapefile with official administration unit codes. These codes allow to join geographical data in shapefile with social-economic data to perform spatial econometric analysis or graph the map of social economic data at ward level. The assigning process finishes with 11,154 out of 11,163 wards (99.91%) assigned official admin codes.

Mots clés: Vietnam; Administration codes; Shapefile

Domaines: Géographie

Hoai Son Nguyen, Minh Ha-Duong. Assigning Official National Administration Unit Code to Vietnam GADM Shapefile 2018 at Ward Level. [Research Report] 2018-70, CIRED CNRS. 2018. ⟨hal-01917034⟩