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1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1990
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USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Carpooling (US1990A_CARPOOL)

Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 420
End: 420
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US90A505 US90A506"><span class="em">23b. How many people, including this person, usually rode to work in the car, truck, or van last week?</span><br /><div class="i1">[] Drove alone<br />[] 2 people<br />[] 3 people<br />[] 4 people<br />[] 5 people<br />[] 6 people<br />[] 7 to 9 people<br />[] 10 or more people</div><br /><br />[If the person was driven to work by someone who then drove back home or to a non-work destination, fill the circle for drove alone. Do not include persons who rode to school or some other non-work destination in the count of persons who rode in the vehicle.]<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Drives alone
2 Carpools
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 whether the respondent usually rode to work in a carpool (with at least one other worker) during the previous week.
Universe
United States 1990: Persons age 16+ who worked last week and used their own car [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Other Person Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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