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1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
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USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Telephone availability (US1970A_PHONE)

Data file: USA1970_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 222
End: 222
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="em">H1. Is there a telephone on which people in your living quarters can be called? </span><div class="i1">[] Yes. What is the phone number? _____<br />[] No</div><p>"Mark <span class="em">Yes</span> and enter telephone number, even if the telephone is in another apartment or building."
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 No, no phone available
2 Yes, phone available
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 residents of the housing unit had telephone access.
Universe
United States 1970: Occupied, private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Utilities Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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