United States Census of 1860 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1860

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USA_1860_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of the Interior, IPUMS

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Number of fathers in household (US1860A_NFATHERS)

Data file: USA1860_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 249

End: 249

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
	0 fathers or NIU (not in universe)
1	1
2	2
3	3
5	5

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.

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Number of fathers in household.

Universe

United States 1860: All sample units

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