1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1980
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USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- USA1980_PHC-H-H.dat
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Birthplace (US1980A_BPL)
Data file: USA1980_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
256
End:
260
Width:
5
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US80A432"><span class="em">11. In what State or foreign country was this person born? </span><br /><div class="i1">Print the State where this person's mother was living when this person was born. Do not give the location of the hospital unless the mother's home and the hospital were in the same State.<br /><br />Name of State or foreign country; or Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. ____</div><br /><br />[For persons born in the United States:<br /><div class="i1">Print the name of the State in which this person's mother was living when this person was born. For persons born in a hospital, do not give the State in which the hospital was located unless the hospital and the mother's home were in the same State or the location of the mother's home is not known. For example, if a person was born in a hospital in Washington D.C., but the mother's home was in Virginia at the time of the person's birth, enter "Virginia.</div><br /><br />For persons born outside the United States:<br /><div class="i1">Print the full name of the foreign country or Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., where the person was born. Use international boundaries as now recognized by the United States. Specify whether Northern Ireland or Ireland (Eire); East or West Germany; England, Scotland or Wales (not Great Britain or United Kingdom). Specify the particular island in the Caribbean, not, for example West Indies.]</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00100 | Alabama |
| 00200 | Alaska |
| 00400 | Arizona |
| 00500 | Arkansas |
| 00600 | California |
| 00800 | Colorado |
| 00900 | Connecticut |
| 01000 | Delaware |
| 01100 | District of Columbia |
| 01200 | Florida |
| 01300 | Georgia |
| 01500 | Hawaii |
| 01600 | Idaho |
| 01700 | Illinois |
| 01800 | Indiana |
| 01900 | Iowa |
| 02000 | Kansas |
| 02100 | Kentucky |
| 02200 | Louisiana |
| 02300 | Maine |
| 02400 | Maryland |
| 02500 | Massachusetts |
| 02600 | Michigan |
| 02700 | Minnesota |
| 02800 | Mississippi |
| 02900 | Missouri |
| 03000 | Montana |
| 03100 | Nebraska |
| 03200 | Nevada |
| 03300 | New Hampshire |
| 03400 | New Jersey |
| 03500 | New Mexico |
| 03600 | New York |
| 03700 | North Carolina |
| 03800 | North Dakota |
| 03900 | Ohio |
| 04000 | Oklahoma |
| 04100 | Oregon |
| 04200 | Pennsylvania |
| 04400 | Rhode Island |
| 04500 | South Carolina |
| 04600 | South Dakota |
| 04700 | Tennessee |
| 04800 | Texas |
| 04900 | Utah |
| 05000 | Vermont |
| 05100 | Virginia |
| 05300 | Washington |
| 05400 | West Virginia |
| 05500 | Wisconsin |
| 05600 | Wyoming |
| 10000 | American Samoa |
| 10500 | Guam |
| 11000 | Puerto Rico |
| 11500 | U S Virgin Islands |
| 11510 | St Croix |
| 11520 | St John |
| 11530 | St Thomas |
| 12010 | Johnston Atoll |
| 12020 | Midway Islands |
| 12030 | Wake Island |
| 12040 | Other US Caribbean Is |
| 12050 | Other US Pacific Is |
| 12090 | US outlying areas, n.s. |
| 15000 | Canada |
| 15500 | St Pierre and Miquelon |
| 16010 | Bermuda |
| 16020 | Cape Verde |
| 16030 | Falkland Islands |
| 16040 | Greenland |
| 16050 | St Helena and Ascension |
| 19900 | North America, n.s. |
| 20000 | Mexico |
| 21010 | Belize/British Honduras |
| 21020 | Costa Rica |
| 21030 | El Salvador |
| 21040 | Guatemala |
| 21050 | Honduras |
| 21060 | Nicaragua |
| 21070 | Panama |
| 21090 | Central America, n.s. |
| 25000 | Cuba |
| 26010 | Dominican Republic |
| 26020 | Haiti |
| 26030 | Jamaica |
| 26041 | Anguilla |
| 26042 | Antigua-Barbuda |
| 26043 | Bahamas |
| 26044 | Barbados |
| 26046 | Anegada |
| 26047 | Cooper |
| 26048 | Jost Van Dyke |
| 26049 | Peter |
| 26050 | Tortola |
| 26051 | Virgin Gorda |
| 26052 | British Virgin Islands, n.s. |
| 26053 | Cayman Isles |
| 26054 | Dominica |
| 26055 | Grenada |
| 26056 | Montserrat |
| 26057 | St Kitts-Nevis |
| 26058 | St Lucia |
| 26059 | St Vincent |
| 26060 | Trinidad Tobago |
| 26061 | Turks Caicos |
| 26069 | British West Indies, n.s. |
| 26071 | Aruba |
| 26073 | Bonaire |
| 26074 | Curacao |
| 26075 | Dutch St Maarten |
| 26076 | Saba |
| 26077 | St Eustatius |
| 26079 | Dutch Caribbean, n.s. |
| 26080 | French St Maarten |
| 26081 | Guadeloupe |
| 26082 | Martinique |
| 26083 | St Barthelemy |
| 26089 | French Caribbean, n.s. |
| 26091 | Caribbean, n.s. |
| 26092 | Latin America, n.s. |
| 30005 | Argentina |
| 30010 | Bolivia |
| 30015 | Brazil |
| 30020 | Chile |
| 30025 | Colombia |
| 30030 | Ecuador |
| 30035 | French Guiana |
| 30040 | Guyana/British Guiana |
| 30045 | Paraguay |
| 30050 | Peru |
| 30055 | Suriname |
| 30060 | Uruguay |
| 30065 | Venezuela |
| 30090 | South America, n.s. |
| 40000 | Denmark |
| 40010 | Faroe Islands |
| 40100 | Finland |
| 40200 | Iceland |
| 40400 | Norway |
| 40410 | Svalbard and Jan Meyen |
| 40500 | Sweden |
| 41000 | England |
| 41010 | Channel Islands |
| 41020 | Isle of Man |
| 41100 | Scotland |
| 41200 | Wales |
| 41300 | United Kingdom, n.s. |
| 41400 | Ireland |
| 41410 | Northern Ireland |
| 41900 | Northern Europe, n.s. |
| 42000 | Belgium |
| 42100 | France |
| 42200 | Liechtenstein |
| 42300 | Luxembourg |
| 42400 | Monaco |
| 42500 | Netherlands |
| 42600 | Switzerland |
| 42900 | Western Europe, n.s. |
| 43000 | Albania |
| 43100 | Andorra |
| 43200 | Gibraltar |
| 43300 | Greece |
| 43400 | Italy |
| 43500 | Malta |
| 43600 | Portugal |
| 43610 | Azores |
| 43620 | Madeira Islands |
| 43700 | San Marino |
| 43800 | Spain |
| 43900 | Vatican City |
| 44000 | Southern Europe, n.s. |
| 45000 | Austria |
| 45100 | Bulgaria |
| 45200 | Czechoslovakia |
| 45310 | West Germany |
| 45340 | East Germany |
| 45400 | Hungary |
| 45500 | Poland |
| 45600 | Romania |
| 45700 | Yugoslavia |
| 45900 | Eastern Europe, n.s. |
| 46000 | Estonia |
| 46100 | Latvia |
| 46200 | Lithuania |
| 46300 | Baltic States, n.s. |
| 46500 | Other USSR/ Russia |
| 46510 | Byelorussia |
| 46520 | Moldavia |
| 46530 | Ukraine |
| 46540 | Armenia |
| 46541 | Azerbaijan |
| 46542 | Georgia |
| 46544 | Kirghizia |
| 46545 | Tadzhik |
| 46546 | Turkmenistan |
| 46547 | Uzbekistan |
| 46590 | USSR, n.s. |
| 49900 | Europe, n.s. |
| 50000 | China |
| 50010 | Hong Kong |
| 50020 | Macau |
| 50030 | Mongolia |
| 50040 | Taiwan |
| 50100 | Japan |
| 50200 | Korea |
| 50210 | North Korea |
| 50220 | South Korea |
| 50900 | East Asia, n.s. |
| 51000 | Brunei |
| 51100 | Cambodia (Kampuchea) |
| 51200 | Indonesia |
| 51220 | East Timor |
| 51300 | Laos |
| 51400 | Malaysia |
| 51500 | Philippines |
| 51600 | Singapore |
| 51700 | Thailand |
| 51800 | Vietnam |
| 51900 | Southeast Asia, n.s. |
| 52000 | Afghanistan |
| 52100 | India |
| 52110 | Bangladesh |
| 52120 | Bhutan |
| 52130 | Burma (Myanmar) |
| 52140 | Pakistan |
| 52150 | Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
| 52200 | Iran |
| 52300 | Maldives |
| 52400 | Nepal |
| 53000 | Bahrain |
| 53100 | Cyprus |
| 53200 | Iraq |
| 53300 | Iraq/Saudi Arabia |
| 53400 | Israel/Palestine |
| 53410 | Gaza Strip |
| 53500 | Jordan |
| 53600 | Kuwait |
| 53700 | Lebanon |
| 53800 | Oman |
| 53900 | Qatar |
| 54000 | Saudi Arabia |
| 54100 | Syria |
| 54200 | Turkey |
| 54300 | United Arab Emirates |
| 54400 | Yemen Arab Republic (North) |
| 54500 | Yemen, PDR (South) |
| 54700 | Middle East, n.s. |
| 54800 | Southwest Asia, n.e.c./n.s. |
| 55000 | South Asia, n.e.c. |
| 59900 | Asia, n.e.c./n.s. |
| 60011 | Algeria |
| 60012 | Egypt/United Arab Rep |
| 60013 | Libya |
| 60014 | Morocco |
| 60015 | Sudan |
| 60016 | Tunisia |
| 60017 | Western Sahara |
| 60019 | North Africa, n.s. |
| 60020 | Benin |
| 60021 | Burkina Faso |
| 60022 | Gambia |
| 60023 | Ghana |
| 60024 | Guinea |
| 60025 | Guinea-Bissau |
| 60026 | Ivory Coast |
| 60027 | Liberia |
| 60028 | Mali |
| 60029 | Mauritania |
| 60030 | Niger |
| 60031 | Nigeria |
| 60032 | Senegal |
| 60033 | Sierra Leone |
| 60034 | Togo |
| 60038 | Western Africa, n.s. |
| 60040 | British Indian Ocean Territory |
| 60041 | Burundi |
| 60042 | Comoros |
| 60043 | Djibouti |
| 60044 | Ethiopia |
| 60045 | Kenya |
| 60046 | Madagascar |
| 60047 | Malawi |
| 60048 | Mauritius |
| 60049 | Mozambique |
| 60050 | Reunion |
| 60051 | Rwanda |
| 60052 | Seychelles |
| 60053 | Somalia |
| 60054 | Tanzania |
| 60055 | Uganda |
| 60056 | Zambia |
| 60057 | Zimbabwe |
| 60064 | Eastern Africa, n.e.c./n.s. |
| 60071 | Angola |
| 60072 | Cameroon |
| 60073 | Central African Republic |
| 60074 | Chad |
| 60075 | Congo |
| 60076 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 60077 | Gabon |
| 60079 | Zaire |
| 60080 | Central Africa, n.s. |
| 60091 | Botswana |
| 60092 | Lesotho |
| 60093 | Namibia |
| 60094 | South Africa (Union of) |
| 60095 | Swaziland |
| 60096 | Southern Africa, n.s. |
| 60099 | Africa, n.s./n.e.c. |
| 70010 | Australia |
| 70020 | New Zealand |
| 71010 | New Caledonia |
| 71011 | Norfolk Islands |
| 71012 | Papua New Guinea |
| 71013 | Solomon Islands |
| 71014 | Vanuatu (New Hebrides) |
| 71020 | Cook Islands |
| 71021 | Fiji |
| 71022 | French Polynesia |
| 71023 | Tonga |
| 71025 | Western Samoa |
| 71029 | Polynesia, n.s. |
| 71032 | Kiribati |
| 71033 | Canton and Enderbury |
| 71034 | Nauru |
| 71037 | Tokelau |
| 71039 | Micronesia, n.s. |
| 71041 | Marshall Islands |
| 71043 | Kosrae |
| 71044 | Pohnpei |
| 71045 | Truk |
| 71046 | Yap |
| 71047 | Northern Mariana Islands |
| 71048 | Palau |
| 71049 | Pacific Trust Territories, n.s. |
| 71090 | Oceania, n.s./n.e.c. |
| 80000 | ANTARTICA, n.s./n.e.c. |
| 80010 | Bouvet Islands |
| 80020 | British Antarctic Terr |
| 80030 | Dronning Maud Land |
| 80040 | French Southern and Antartic Lands |
| 80050 | Heard and McDonald Islands |
| 90010 | Abroad, n.s. |
| 90020 | At sea |
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 the U.S. state or the foreign country where the person was born.
Universe
United States 1980: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |