United States Census of 1880 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1880

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USA_1880_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Department of the Interior, IPUMS

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Occupation, alphabetic string (US1880A_OCCSTR)

Data file: USA1880_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Continuous

Start: 359

End: 410

Width: 52

Range: -

Format: character

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Literal question

<svar a="all" v="US80A405 US80A406 US80A416 US80A417 US80A422">13. ____ Profession, occupation, or trade of each person, male or female<br /></svar></p>

<p>Note B: All persons will be included in the enumeration who were living on the 1st day of June. No others will. Children born since June 1, 1880 will be omitted. Members of families who have died since June 1, 1880, will be included

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Occupation, alphabetic string.

Universe

United States 1880 (100%): All persons

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Concept

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Derivation

This is a 52-digit numeric variable with 0 implied decimal places

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