1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990

Get Microdata

Reference ID

USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Study website

Created on

Sep 03, 2025

Last modified

Sep 03, 2025

Page views

5336

Personal care limitation (DISCARE)

Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 224

End: 224

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category
0	NIU (not in universe)
1	Yes, personal care limitation
2	No personal care limitation
9	Unknown

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

DISCARE indicates whether the respondent had any permanent condition that made it difficult for him/her to take care of their personal needs.

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Disability Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

Back to Catalog