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American Community Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2005
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USA_2005_CS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center
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Carpooling (US2005A_0480)

Data file: USA2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 385
End: 385
Width: 1
Range: -
Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question
[Q.26-28 are asked if the person's working place is outside of home the week before.]




I. Answer question 26 only if you marked "car, truck or van" in question 25. Otherwise, skip to question 27.

26. How many people, including this person, usually rode to work in the car, truck or van last week?

Person(s): ____
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Drives alone
2 Carpools
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 the respondent usually rode to work in a carpool (with at least one other worker) during the previous week. Persons are considered car-poolers only if they rode with other workers.
Universe
Persons whose means of transportation is an auto, truck or van

concept

Concept
Name Vocabulary
Work Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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