2010 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2006 - 2010

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Reference ID

USA_2010_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

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Welfare (public assistance) income (US$) (US2010A_INCWELFR)

Data file: USA2010_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 378

End: 382

Width: 5

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar v="US10A449 US10A548 US10A453 US10A454 US10A451 US10A452 US10A532 US10A552 US10A730">47. Income in the past 12 months. Mark (X) the "Yes" box for each type of income this person received and give your best estimate of the total amount during the past 12 months. (Note: The "past 12 months" is the period from today's date one year ago up through today.) Mark (X) the "No" box to show types of income not received. If net income was a loss, mark the "Loss" box to the right of the dollar amount. For income received jointly, report the appropriate share for each person or, if that's not possible, report the whole amount for only one person and mark the "No" box for the other person. <br /></svar></p>

<p><svar a="all" v="US10A452 US10A730">f) Any public assistance or welfare payments from the state or local welfare office. <br /><div class="i1">[] Yes $____.00 (Total amount for past 12 months) <br />[ ] No</div><br /></svar>

Description

Definition

This variable indicates the person's welfare (public assistance) income (in US$).

Universe

United States 2010: Persons age 15+ [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

US10A452 is a 5-digit numeric variable.

Codes99999 = NIU (not in universe)

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