United States Census of 1880 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1880

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USA_1880_PHC-10PCT_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Relationship to household head, alphabetic string (US1880B_RELSTR)

Data file: USA1880_PHC-10PCT-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 430

End: 479

Width: 50

Range: -

Format: character

Questions and instructions

Literal question

08. Relationship of each person to the head of this family:</p>
<div class="i1">[] Wife<br />[] Son<br />[] Daughter<br />[] Servant<br />[] Boarder<br />[] Other</div>

Description

Definition

Relationship to household head, alphabetic string.

Universe

United States 1880 (10%): All persons who reported relationship to the head of household

concept

Concept

Imputation and derivation

Derivation

This is a 50-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

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