Home / Central Data Catalog / USA_1970_PHC_V01_M_V7.5_A_IPUMS / variable [H]
central

1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
Get Microdata
Reference ID
USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
Metadata
Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON
Study website
Created on
Sep 03, 2025
Last modified
Sep 03, 2025
Page views
2456

Acreage of property (US1970A_ACREPROP)

Data file: USA1970_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 172
End: 172
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">H17. Is this building -- </span><div class="i1">[] On a city or suburban lots? - Skip to H19<br />[] On a place of less than 10 acres?<br />[] On a place of 10 acres or more?</div><p>"<span class="em">A city or suburban lot</span> is usually located in a city, a community, or any built-up area outside a city or community, and is not larger than the house and yard. All living quarters in apartment buildings, including garden-type apartments in the city or suburbs, are considered <span class="em">on a city or suburban lot</span>. A <span class="em">place</span> is a farm, ranch, or any other property, other than a city or suburban lot, on which this <span class="em">residence</span> is located."
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 City or suburban lot
3 Under 10 acres (includes less than 1 acre)
4 10 acres
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether or not a non-city, non-suburban housing unit was located on 10 or more acres.
Universe
United States 1970: Not group quarters [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
Back to Catalog