Description: The prevailing type of settlement pattern.
| Code # | Code |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fully migratory or nomadic bands |
| 2 | Seminomadic communities whose members wander in bands for at least half of the year but occupy a fixed settlement at some season or seasons, e.g., recurrently occupied winter quarters |
| 3 | Semisedentary communities whose members shift from one to another fixed settlement at different seasons or who occupy more or less permanently a single settlement from which a substantial proportion of the population departs seasonally to occupy shifting camps, e.g., during transhumance |
| 4 | Compact but impermanent settlements, i.e., villages whose location is shifted every few years |
| 5 | Neighborhoods of dispersed family homesteads |
| 6 | Separated hamlets where several such form a more or less permanent single community |
| 7 | Compact and relatively permanent settlements, i.e., nucleated villages or towns |
| 8 | Complex settlements consisting of a nucleated village or town with outlying homesteads or satellite hamlets. Urban aggregations of population are not separately indicated since EA031 deals with community size |
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1 | Nomadic | 81 |
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2 | Seminomadic | 188 |
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3 | Semisedentary | 97 |
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4 | Impermanent | 15 |
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5 | Dispersed homesteads | 151 |
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6 | Hamlets | 106 |
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7 | Villages/towns | 518 |
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8 | Complex permanent | 31 |
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