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Census of Population and Housing 1970 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
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USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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Place of work metropolitan status (US1970A_0482)

Data file: USA1970-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 314
End: 314
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Questions 29 through 41 are for all persons born before April 1956 including housewives, students, or disabled persons as well as part-time or full-time workers.


[All]

29a. Did this person work at any time last week?


[] Yes - Fill this circle if this person did full- or part-time work. (Count part-time work such as a Saturday job, delivering papers, or helping without pay in a family business or farm; and active duty in the Armed Forces.

[] No - Fill this circle if this person did not work, or did only own housework, school work, or volunteer work. Skip to 30




[15%]
c. Where did he work last week?

If he worked in more than one place, print where he worked most last week.
If he travels about in his work or if the place does not have a numbered address, see instruction sheet.


(1) Address (Number and street name)


_____


(2) Name of city, town, village, etc.


_____


(3) Inside the limits of this city, town, village, etc.?



[] Yes
[] No


(4) County


_____


(5) State


_____


(6) Zip Code


_____
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 In central city Central Business District
2 In central city, not Central Business District
3 Not central city
4 Outside metropolitan area or abroad
9 Unknown
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 respondents who worked last week worked primarily within a metropolitan area (codes 1-4), and, if so, whether they worked within a metropolitan central city (codes 1-3). A metropolitan area includes a large city (the "central city") and surrounding counties that are economically integrated with that city.
Universe
Persons age 14+ who worked last week

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Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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