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United States Census of 1880 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1880
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Metropolitan district status (US1880B_MDSTATUS)

Data file: USA1880_PHC-10PCT-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 218
End: 218
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
Schedule 1: Free Inhabitants in ____, in the County of ____, State of ____, enumerated by me, on the ____day of ____, 1880.</p>

<p>____, Enumerator.
Categories
Value Category
1 Not metropolitan district
2 Central city
3 Urbanized fringe
4 Metropolitan fringe
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 metropolitan status of the household based on the metropolitan district classification. See US80B030 for the definition of a metropolitan district.
Universe
United States 1880 (10%): All households

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