1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1990
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Reference ID
USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- USA1990_PHC-H-H.dat
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Birthplace (US1990A_BPL)
Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
267
End:
271
Width:
5
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US90A430"><span class="em">8. In what U.S. State or foreign country was this person born?</span><br /><div class="i1">____<br />(Name of State or foreign country; or Puerto Rico, Guam, etc.)</div><br /><br />[For persons born in the United States:<br /><div class="i1">Print the name of the State in which this person was born. If the person was born in Washington, D.C., print District of Columbia. If the person was born in a U.S. territory or commonwealth, print Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or Northern Marianas.</div><br />[For persons born outside the United States:<br /><div class="i1">Print the name of the foreign country or area where the person was born. Use current boundaries, not boundaries at the time of the person's birth. Specify whether Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland (Eire); East or West Germany; North or South Korea; England, Scotland, or Wales (not Great Britain or United Kingdom). Specify the particular country or island in the Caribbean (not, for example, West Indies).]</div><br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00100 | Alabama |
| 00200 | Alaska |
| 00400 | Arizona |
| 00500 | Arkansas |
| 00600 | California |
| 00800 | Colorado |
| 00900 | Connecticut |
| 01000 | Delaware |
| 01100 | District of Columbia |
| 01200 | Florida |
| 01300 | Georgia |
| 01500 | Hawaii |
| 01600 | Idaho |
| 01700 | Illinois |
| 01800 | Indiana |
| 01900 | Iowa |
| 02000 | Kansas |
| 02100 | Kentucky |
| 02200 | Louisiana |
| 02300 | Maine |
| 02400 | Maryland |
| 02500 | Massachusetts |
| 02600 | Michigan |
| 02700 | Minnesota |
| 02800 | Mississippi |
| 02900 | Missouri |
| 03000 | Montana |
| 03100 | Nebraska |
| 03200 | Nevada |
| 03300 | New Hampshire |
| 03400 | New Jersey |
| 03500 | New Mexico |
| 03600 | New York |
| 03700 | North Carolina |
| 03800 | North Dakota |
| 03900 | Ohio |
| 04000 | Oklahoma |
| 04100 | Oregon |
| 04200 | Pennsylvania |
| 04400 | Rhode Island |
| 04500 | South Carolina |
| 04600 | South Dakota |
| 04700 | Tennessee |
| 04800 | Texas |
| 04900 | Utah |
| 05000 | Vermont |
| 05100 | Virginia |
| 05300 | Washington |
| 05400 | West Virginia |
| 05500 | Wisconsin |
| 05600 | Wyoming |
| 10000 | American Samoa |
| 10500 | Guam |
| 11000 | Puerto Rico |
| 11500 | U S Virgin Islands |
| 12020 | Midway Islands |
| 12030 | Wake Island |
| 12052 | Howland Island |
| 12092 | US territory, n.s. |
| 15000 | Canada |
| 15500 | St Pierre and Miquelon |
| 16010 | Bermuda |
| 16020 | Cape Verde |
| 16030 | Falkland Islands |
| 16040 | Greenland |
| 16050 | St Helena and Ascension |
| 19900 | North America, n.s. |
| 20000 | Mexico |
| 21010 | Belize/British Honduras |
| 21020 | Costa Rica |
| 21030 | El Salvador |
| 21040 | Guatemala |
| 21050 | Honduras |
| 21060 | Nicaragua |
| 21070 | Panama |
| 21090 | Central America, n.s. |
| 25000 | Cuba |
| 26010 | Dominican Republic |
| 26020 | Haiti |
| 26030 | Jamaica |
| 26041 | Anguilla |
| 26042 | Antigua-Barbuda |
| 26043 | Bahamas |
| 26044 | Barbados |
| 26045 | British Virgin Islands |
| 26053 | Cayman Isles |
| 26054 | Dominica |
| 26055 | Grenada |
| 26056 | Montserrat |
| 26057 | St Kitts-Nevis |
| 26058 | St Lucia |
| 26059 | St Vincent |
| 26060 | Trinidad Tobago |
| 26061 | Turks Caicos |
| 26069 | British West Indies, n.s. |
| 26071 | Aruba |
| 26072 | Netherlands Antilles |
| 26081 | Guadeloupe |
| 26082 | Martinique |
| 26090 | Antilles, n.s. |
| 26091 | Caribbean, n.s. |
| 26092 | Latin America, n.s. |
| 26093 | Leeward Islands, n.s. |
| 26094 | West Indies, n.s. |
| 30005 | Argentina |
| 30010 | Bolivia |
| 30015 | Brazil |
| 30020 | Chile |
| 30025 | Colombia |
| 30030 | Ecuador |
| 30035 | French Guiana |
| 30040 | Guyana/British Guiana |
| 30045 | Paraguay |
| 30050 | Peru |
| 30055 | Suriname |
| 30060 | Uruguay |
| 30065 | Venezuela |
| 30090 | South America, n.s. |
| 40000 | Denmark |
| 40010 | Faroe Islands |
| 40100 | Finland |
| 40200 | Iceland |
| 40400 | Norway |
| 40500 | Sweden |
| 41000 | England |
| 41011 | Guernsey |
| 41012 | Jersey |
| 41020 | Isle of Man |
| 41100 | Scotland |
| 41200 | Wales |
| 41300 | United Kingdom, n.s. |
| 41400 | Ireland |
| 41410 | Northern Ireland |
| 41900 | Northern Europe, n.s. |
| 42000 | Belgium |
| 42100 | France |
| 42200 | Liechtenstein |
| 42300 | Luxembourg |
| 42400 | Monaco |
| 42500 | Netherlands |
| 42600 | Switzerland |
| 42900 | Western Europe, n.s. |
| 43000 | Albania |
| 43100 | Andorra |
| 43200 | Gibraltar |
| 43300 | Greece |
| 43400 | Italy |
| 43500 | Malta |
| 43600 | Portugal |
| 43610 | Azores |
| 43620 | Madeira Islands |
| 43700 | San Marino |
| 43800 | Spain |
| 43900 | Vatican City |
| 45000 | Austria |
| 45100 | Bulgaria |
| 45200 | Czechoslovakia |
| 45300 | Germany |
| 45310 | West Germany |
| 45328 | West Berlin |
| 45340 | East Germany |
| 45343 | East Berlin |
| 45400 | Hungary |
| 45500 | Poland |
| 45600 | Romania |
| 45700 | Yugoslavia |
| 45900 | Eastern Europe, n.s. |
| 46000 | Estonia |
| 46100 | Latvia |
| 46200 | Lithuania |
| 46300 | Baltic States, n.s. |
| 46500 | Other USSR/ Russia |
| 49900 | Europe, n.s. |
| 50000 | China |
| 50010 | Hong Kong |
| 50020 | Macau |
| 50030 | Mongolia |
| 50040 | Taiwan |
| 50100 | Japan |
| 50200 | Korea |
| 50210 | North Korea |
| 50220 | South Korea |
| 51000 | Brunei |
| 51100 | Cambodia (Kampuchea) |
| 51200 | Indonesia |
| 51300 | Laos |
| 51400 | Malaysia |
| 51500 | Philippines |
| 51600 | Singapore |
| 51700 | Thailand |
| 51800 | Vietnam |
| 51900 | Southeast Asia, n.s. |
| 51910 | Indochina, n.s. |
| 52000 | Afghanistan |
| 52100 | India |
| 52110 | Bangladesh |
| 52120 | Bhutan |
| 52130 | Burma (Myanmar) |
| 52140 | Pakistan |
| 52150 | Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
| 52200 | Iran |
| 52400 | Nepal |
| 53000 | Bahrain |
| 53100 | Cyprus |
| 53200 | Iraq |
| 53210 | Mesopotamia |
| 53400 | Israel/Palestine |
| 53410 | Gaza Strip |
| 53420 | Palestine |
| 53430 | West Bank |
| 53500 | Jordan |
| 53600 | Kuwait |
| 53700 | Lebanon |
| 53800 | Oman |
| 53900 | Qatar |
| 54000 | Saudi Arabia |
| 54100 | Syria |
| 54200 | Turkey |
| 54300 | United Arab Emirates |
| 54400 | Yemen Arab Republic (North) |
| 54500 | Yemen, PDR (South) |
| 54600 | Persian Gulf States, n.s. |
| 54700 | Middle East, n.s. |
| 54900 | Asia Minor, n.s. |
| 59900 | Asia, n.e.c./n.s. |
| 60011 | Algeria |
| 60012 | Egypt/United Arab Rep |
| 60013 | Libya |
| 60014 | Morocco |
| 60015 | Sudan |
| 60016 | Tunisia |
| 60019 | North Africa, n.s. |
| 60020 | Benin |
| 60021 | Burkina Faso |
| 60022 | Gambia |
| 60023 | Ghana |
| 60024 | Guinea |
| 60025 | Guinea-Bissau |
| 60026 | Ivory Coast |
| 60027 | Liberia |
| 60028 | Mali |
| 60029 | Mauritania |
| 60030 | Niger |
| 60031 | Nigeria |
| 60032 | Senegal |
| 60033 | Sierra Leone |
| 60034 | Togo |
| 60038 | Western Africa, n.s. |
| 60041 | Burundi |
| 60042 | Comoros |
| 60043 | Djibouti |
| 60044 | Ethiopia |
| 60045 | Kenya |
| 60046 | Madagascar |
| 60047 | Malawi |
| 60048 | Mauritius |
| 60049 | Mozambique |
| 60050 | Reunion |
| 60051 | Rwanda |
| 60052 | Seychelles |
| 60053 | Somalia |
| 60054 | Tanzania |
| 60055 | Uganda |
| 60056 | Zambia |
| 60057 | Zimbabwe |
| 60059 | Europa |
| 60060 | Gloriosos |
| 60064 | Eastern Africa, n.e.c./n.s. |
| 60071 | Angola |
| 60072 | Cameroon |
| 60073 | Central African Republic |
| 60074 | Chad |
| 60075 | Congo |
| 60076 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 60077 | Gabon |
| 60078 | Sao Tome and Principe |
| 60079 | Zaire |
| 60080 | Central Africa, n.s. |
| 60091 | Botswana |
| 60092 | Lesotho |
| 60093 | Namibia |
| 60094 | South Africa (Union of) |
| 60095 | Swaziland |
| 60096 | Southern Africa, n.s. |
| 60099 | Africa, n.s./n.e.c. |
| 70010 | Australia |
| 70020 | New Zealand |
| 71010 | New Caledonia |
| 71011 | Norfolk Islands |
| 71012 | Papua New Guinea |
| 71013 | Solomon Islands |
| 71014 | Vanuatu (New Hebrides) |
| 71019 | Melanesia, n.s. |
| 71020 | Cook Islands |
| 71021 | Fiji |
| 71022 | French Polynesia |
| 71023 | Tonga |
| 71025 | Western Samoa |
| 71029 | Polynesia, n.s. |
| 71031 | Cocos Islands |
| 71032 | Kiribati |
| 71034 | Nauru |
| 71036 | Pitcairn Island |
| 71037 | Tokelau |
| 71038 | Tuvalu |
| 71041 | Marshall Islands |
| 71042 | Micronesia |
| 71047 | Northern Mariana Islands |
| 71048 | Palau |
| 80000 | ANTARTICA, n.s./n.e.c. |
| 90010 | Abroad, n.s. |
| 90020 | At sea |
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 place of birth of the individual.
Universe
United States 1990: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Nativity and Birthplace Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |