1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1980

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Reference ID

USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

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Group quarters status (US1980A_GQ)

Data file: USA1980_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 186

End: 186

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
0	Vacant unit
1	Households under 1970 definition
2	Additional households under 1990 definition
3	Institutions
4	Other group quarters

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 all housing units as falling into one of three main categories: households, group quarters, or vacant units.

Universe

United States 1980: All households

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Group Quarters Variables -- HOUSEHOLD	IPUMS

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