FIELD CHARACTER
NAME POSITIONS DESCRIPTION
NAME 017-080 ATLAS internal field (can be deleted)
NAME2 081-144 ATLAS internal field (can be deleted)
LAT 145-150 Latitude of center point
(degrees-minutes-seconds)
NS 151-151 North-South Hemisphere
LONG 152-158 Longitude of center point
(degrees-minutes-seconds)
EW 159-159 East-West Hemisphere
SPLIT 160-160 Split cell indicator (cells shared by
another country)
COUNTRY 161-162 Country Code
PROV 163-164 Province Code
ICOD 165-168 "01" plus the last two digits of the first
projection year
SIGN 169-169 indicates positive or negative growth rate
AAGRC 170-171 Average Annual Growth Rate (in tenths of
a percent)
PP1 172-175 Population projection in hundreds, year 1
PP2 176-179 Population projection in hundreds, year 2
PP3 180-183 Population projection in hundreds, year 3
PP4 184-187 Population projection in hundreds, year 4
PP5 188-191 Population projection in hundreds, year 5
PP6 192-195 Population projection in hundreds, year 6
PP7 196-199 Population projection in hundreds, year 7
PP8 200-203 Population projection in hundreds, year 8
PP9 204-207 Population projection in hundreds, year 9
PP10 208-211 Population projection in hundreds, year 10
PP11 212-215 Population projection in hundreds, year 11
PP12 216-219 Population projection in hundreds, year 12
CENPOP 220-223 Official census population, base census
year
CENYEAR 224-225 Last two digits of base census year