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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Race (US1990A_RACE)

Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 261

End: 263

Width: 3

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="US90A425"><span class="em">4. Race</span><br /><div class="i1">Fill one circle for the race that the person considers himself/herself to be.<br /><br />If Indian (Amer.), print the name of the enrolled or principal tribe.<br />If Other Asian or Pacific Islander (API), print one group, for example: Hmong, Fijian, Laotian, Thai, Tongan, Pakistani, Cambodian, and so on.<br />If Other race, print race.<br /><br />[] White<br />[] Black or Negro<br />[] Indian (Amer.) (Print the name of the enrolled or principal tribe.)</div><br /><div class="i2">____</div><br /><div class="i1">[] Eskimo<br />[] Aleut</div><br /><br /><div class="i1">Asian or Pacific Islander (API)<br />[] Chinese<br />[] Filipino<br />[] Hawaiian<br />[] Korean<br />[] Vietnamese<br />[] Japanese<br />[] Asian Indian<br />[] Samoan<br />[] Guamanian<br />[] Other API</div><br /><div class="i2">____</div><br /><div class="i1">[] Other race (Print race)</div><br /><div class="i2">____</div><br /><br />[Fill one circle for the race each person considers himself/herself to be. If you fill the Indian (Amer.) circle, print the name of the tribe or tribes in which the person is enrolled. If the person is not enrolled in a tribe, print the name of the principal tribe(s). If you fill the Other API circle [under Asian or Pacific Islander (API)], only print the name of the group to which the person belongs. For example, the Other API category includes persons who identify as Burmese, Fijian, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Tongan, Thai, Cambodian, Sri Lankan, and so on. If you fill the Other race circle, be sure to print the name of the race. If the person considers himself/herself to be White, Black or Negro, Eskimo or Aleut, fill one circle only. Please do not print the race in the boxes. The Black or Negro category also includes persons who identify as African-American, Afro-American, Haitian, Jamaican, West Indian, Nigerian, and so on. All persons, regardless of citizenship status, should answer this question.]<br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
100	White
110	Spanish write-in
200	Black/Negro
301	Alaskan Athabaskan
302	Apache
303	Blackfoot
304	Cherokee
305	Cheyenne
306	Chickasaw
307	Chippewa
308	Choctaw
309	Comanche
310	Creek
311	Crow
312	Iroquois
313	Kiowa
314	Lumbee
315	Navajo
316	Osage
317	Paiute
318	Pima
319	Potawatomi
320	Pueblo
321	Seminole
322	Shoshone
323	Sioux
324	Tlingit
325	Tohono O Odham
326	All other tribes
327	Tribe not specified
330	Aleut
340	Eskimo
400	Chinese
410	Taiwanese
500	Japanese
600	Filipino
610	Asian Indian
620	Korean
630	Native Hawaiian
640	Vietnamese
660	Cambodian
661	Hmong
662	Laotian
663	Thai
664	Bangladeshi
665	Burmese
666	Indonesian
667	Malaysian
668	Okinawan
669	Pakistani
670	Sri Lankan
671	All other Asian, n.e.c.
680	Samoan
681	Tahitian
682	Tongan
683	Other Polynesian
685	Guamanian/Chamorro
686	Northern Mariana Islander
687	Palauan
688	Other Micronesian
690	Fijian
691	Other Melanesian
699	Pacific Islander, n.s.
700	Other race, n.e.c.

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 ethnic group to which the person belonged.

Universe

United States 1990: All persons

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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