United States Census of 1880 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1880

Get Microdata

Reference ID

USA_1880_PHC-10PCT_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of the Interior, IPUMS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Sep 03, 2025

Last modified

Sep 03, 2025

Page views

2887

Metropolitan district (US1880B_METDIST)

Data file: USA1880_PHC-10PCT-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 219

End: 222

Width: 4

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
0000	Not in a metropolitan district
0160	Albany-Troy, NY
0720	Baltimore, MD
1120	Boston, MA
1122	Lowell, MA
1280	Buffalo, NY
1600	Chicago, IL/IN
1640	Cincinnati, OH/KY
1680	Cleveland, OH
1840	Columbus, OH
2160	Detroit, MI
3480	Indianapolis, IN
3760	Kansas City, MO/KS
4520	Louisville, KY
5080	Milwaukee, WI
5480	New Haven, CT
5560	New Orleans, LA
5600	New York, NY-Northeastern NJ
6160	Philadelphia, PA/NJ
6280	Pittsburgh, PA
6480	Providence, RI/MA
6760	Richmond, VA
6840	Rochester, NY
7040	St. Louis, MO/IL
7360	San Francisco-Oakland, CA
7560	Scranton, PA
8160	Syracuse, NY
8400	Toledo, OH
8840	Washington, DC/MD/VA
9240	Worcester, MA

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 household's metropolitan district of enumeration. Metropolitan districts are composed of urban centers with populations of at least 50,000, along with contiguous minor civil divisions that have population densities of at least 150 persons per square mile.

Universe

United States 1880 (10%): All households

concept

Concept

Back to Catalog