United States Census of 1870 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1870

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USA_1870_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Number of own children under age 5 in household (US1870A_NCHLT5)

Data file: USA1870_PHC-P-H

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Type: Discrete

Start: 261

End: 261

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
	No children under age 5
1	1 child under age 5
2	2
3	3
4	4
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 own children under age 5 in household.

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United States 1870: All persons

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