# Urban/ Rural residence in Burkina Faso's census of 1985 and 1996 **URL:** \ **Category:** INTERNATIONAL\ **Created:** [January 4, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/urban-rural-residence-in-burkina-fasos-census-of-1985-and-1996/762 "2015-01-04T18:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lankyem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6a8cbe/32.png) [@lankyem](https://forum.ipums.org/u/lankyem)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2015, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/urban-rural-residence-in-burkina-fasos-census-of-1985-and-1996/762/1 "2015-01-04T18:20:00Z")
I am working on urban/ rural mortality trends in Burkina Faso but I have problems getting variables on place of residence in census of 1985 and 1996. Could these variables be constructed from available data? Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Moreland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@Tim\_Moreland](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Tim_Moreland)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/urban-rural-residence-in-burkina-fasos-census-of-1985-and-1996/762/2 "2015-01-05T17:20:00Z")
Urban/rural status was asked only in the 2006 Burkina Faso census. As a result, this information is not available for the 1985 and 1996 samples. Since the lowest level of geography available for these years is the province, I am not aware of any geography-based method for imputing urban/rural status from the data. You may try searching for existing articles to see if any researchers have previously attempted to impute urban/rural status or developed a valid substitute measure for urban/rural status in Burkina Faso. Sorry that I am unable to provide a solution. ---
**Author:** ![lankyem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6a8cbe/32.png) [@lankyem](https://forum.ipums.org/u/lankyem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/urban-rural-residence-in-burkina-fasos-census-of-1985-and-1996/762/3 "2015-01-05T18:21:00Z")
Thank you so much for this clarification.