United States Census of 1850 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1850

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USA_1850_PHC-1PCT_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of the Interior, IPUMS

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Rule for linking spouse (US1850B_SPRULE)

Data file: USA1850_PHC-1PCT-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 252

End: 252

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
	No spouse link
1	Wife follows husband
2	Wife precedes husband
3	Non-adjacent links -- consistent relationship to head/age differences
4	Adjacent links (wife follows husband -- no age, other relative conflicts)
5	Adjacent links (wife precedes husband -- no age, other relative conflicts)

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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Definition

Rule for linking spouse.

Universe

United States 1850 (1%): All persons

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