United States Census of 1850 - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1850
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USA_1850_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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- USA1850_PHC-H-H
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Birthplace (US1850A_BPL)
Data file: USA1850_PHC-P-H
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Start:
263
End:
267
Width:
5
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a=" US50A430 US50A431" v=" US50A430 US50A431 US50A432 US50A433 US50A435">9. ____ Place of birth, naming the state, territory, or country.<br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 00100 | Alabama |
| 00200 | Alaska |
| 00400 | Arizona |
| 00500 | Arkansas |
| 00600 | California |
| 00800 | Colorado |
| 00900 | Connecticut |
| 01000 | Delaware |
| 01100 | District of Columbia |
| 01200 | Florida |
| 01300 | Georgia |
| 01500 | Hawaii |
| 01600 | Idaho |
| 01700 | Illinois |
| 01800 | Indiana |
| 01900 | Iowa |
| 02000 | Kansas |
| 02100 | Kentucky |
| 02200 | Louisiana |
| 02300 | Maine |
| 02400 | Maryland |
| 02500 | Massachusetts |
| 02600 | Michigan |
| 02700 | Minnesota |
| 02800 | Mississippi |
| 02900 | Missouri |
| 03000 | Montana |
| 03100 | Nebraska |
| 03200 | Nevada |
| 03300 | New Hampshire |
| 03400 | New Jersey |
| 03500 | New Mexico |
| 03510 | New Mexico Territory |
| 03600 | New York |
| 03700 | North Carolina |
| 03800 | North Dakota |
| 03900 | Ohio |
| 04000 | Oklahoma |
| 04010 | Indian Territory |
| 04100 | Oregon |
| 04200 | Pennsylvania |
| 04400 | Rhode Island |
| 04500 | South Carolina |
| 04600 | South Dakota |
| 04700 | Tennessee |
| 04800 | Texas |
| 04900 | Utah |
| 04910 | Utah Territory |
| 05000 | Vermont |
| 05100 | Virginia |
| 05300 | Washington |
| 05400 | West Virginia |
| 05500 | Wisconsin |
| 05600 | Wyoming |
| 09000 | Native American |
| 09900 | United States, n.s. |
| 10500 | Guam |
| 11000 | Puerto Rico |
| 11500 | U.S. Virgin Islands |
| 11510 | St. Croix |
| 11520 | St. John |
| 11530 | St. Thomas |
| 15000 | Canada |
| 15010 | English Canada |
| 15011 | British Columbia |
| 15015 | Saskatchewan |
| 15017 | Northwest |
| 15020 | Manitoba |
| 15030 | Ontario/Upper Canada |
| 15031 | Upper Canada |
| 15032 | Canada West |
| 15040 | New Brunswick |
| 15050 | Nova Scotia |
| 15051 | Cape Breton |
| 15052 | Halifax |
| 15060 | Prince Edward Island |
| 15070 | Newfoundland |
| 15080 | French Canada |
| 15081 | Quebec |
| 15082 | Lower Canada |
| 15083 | Canada East |
| 16010 | Bermuda |
| 16020 | Cape Verde |
| 16040 | Greenland |
| 16050 | St. Helena and Ascension |
| 16060 | Canary Islands |
| 19900 | North America, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 20000 | Mexico |
| 21010 | Belize/British Honduras |
| 21030 | El Salvador |
| 21040 | Guatemala |
| 21050 | Honduras |
| 21060 | Nicaragua |
| 21070 | Panama |
| 21090 | Central America, n.s. |
| 25000 | Cuba |
| 26000 | West Indies |
| 26010 | Dominican Republic |
| 26020 | Haiti |
| 26030 | Jamaica |
| 26040 | British West Indies |
| 26042 | Antigua-Barbuda |
| 26043 | Bahamas |
| 26044 | Barbados |
| 26052 | British Virgin Islands, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 26054 | Dominica |
| 26055 | Grenada |
| 26057 | St. Kitts-Nevis |
| 26058 | St. Lucia |
| 26059 | St. Vincent |
| 26060 | Trinidad and Tobago |
| 26061 | Turks and Caicos |
| 26069 | British West Indies, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 26074 | Curacao |
| 26077 | St. Eustatius |
| 26079 | Dutch Caribbean, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 26080 | French St. Maarten |
| 26081 | Guadeloupe |
| 26082 | Martinique |
| 26083 | St. Barthelemy |
| 26089 | French Caribbean, n.s. |
| 26090 | Antilles, n.s. |
| 26091 | Caribbean, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 26093 | Leeward Islands, n.s. |
| 26094 | West Indies, n.s. |
| 29900 | Americas, n.s. |
| 30005 | Argentina |
| 30010 | Bolivia |
| 30015 | Brazil |
| 30020 | Chile |
| 30025 | Colombia |
| 30030 | Ecuador |
| 30035 | French Guiana |
| 30040 | Guyana/British Guiana |
| 30050 | Peru |
| 30055 | Suriname |
| 30065 | Venezuela |
| 30090 | South America, n.s. |
| 30091 | South and Central America, n.s. |
| 40000 | Denmark |
| 40010 | Faroe Islands |
| 40100 | Finland |
| 40200 | Iceland |
| 40400 | Norway |
| 40500 | Sweden |
| 41000 | England |
| 41010 | Channel Islands |
| 41011 | Guernsey |
| 41012 | Jersey |
| 41020 | Isle of Man |
| 41100 | Scotland |
| 41200 | Wales |
| 41300 | United Kingdom, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 41400 | Ireland |
| 41410 | Northern Ireland |
| 41900 | Northern Europe, n.s. |
| 42000 | Belgium |
| 42100 | France |
| 42111 | Alsace |
| 42112 | Lorraine |
| 42300 | Luxembourg |
| 42500 | Netherlands |
| 42600 | Switzerland |
| 42900 | Western Europe, n.s. |
| 43000 | Albania |
| 43200 | Gibraltar |
| 43300 | Greece |
| 43400 | Italy |
| 43500 | Malta |
| 43600 | Portugal |
| 43610 | Azores |
| 43620 | Madeira Islands |
| 43640 | St. Miguel |
| 43800 | Spain |
| 45000 | Austria |
| 45050 | Austria-Tyrol |
| 45060 | Austria-Vienna |
| 45200 | Czechoslovakia |
| 45210 | Bohemia |
| 45211 | Bohemia-Moravia |
| 45213 | Czech Republic |
| 45300 | Germany |
| 45301 | Berlin |
| 45311 | Baden |
| 45312 | Bavaria |
| 45313 | Braunschweig |
| 45314 | Bremen |
| 45315 | Hamburg |
| 45316 | Hanover |
| 45317 | Hessen |
| 45318 | Hesse-Nassau |
| 45319 | Lippe |
| 45321 | Oldenburg |
| 45322 | Rhineland |
| 45324 | Schleswig |
| 45325 | Sigmaringen |
| 45327 | Westphalia |
| 45328 | Wurttemberg |
| 45329 | Waldecker |
| 45330 | Wittenberg |
| 45331 | Frankfurt |
| 45340 | East Germany, n.e.c. |
| 45341 | Anhalt |
| 45342 | Brandenburg |
| 45344 | Kingdom of Saxony |
| 45345 | Mecklinburg |
| 45346 | Saxony |
| 45347 | Thuringian States |
| 45360 | Prussia, n.e.c. |
| 45400 | Hungary |
| 45500 | Poland |
| 45511 | Galicia |
| 45520 | German Poland |
| 45522 | Pomerania |
| 45523 | Posen |
| 45524 | Prussian Poland |
| 45525 | Silesia |
| 45530 | Russian Poland |
| 45600 | Romania |
| 45700 | Yugoslavia |
| 45740 | Bosnia |
| 45750 | Dalmatia |
| 45800 | Central Europe, n.s. |
| 46200 | Lithuania |
| 46500 | Other USSR/Russia |
| 46520 | Moldavia |
| 46530 | Ukraine |
| 46540 | Armenia |
| 46548 | Siberia |
| 49900 | Europe, n.s. |
| 50000 | China |
| 50010 | Hong Kong |
| 50020 | Macau |
| 50100 | Japan |
| 50900 | East Asia, n.s. |
| 51200 | Indonesia |
| 51210 | East Indies |
| 51400 | Malaysia |
| 51500 | Philippines |
| 51600 | Singapore |
| 51700 | Thailand |
| 51900 | Southeast Asia, n.s. |
| 52100 | India |
| 52130 | Burma (Myanmar) |
| 52150 | Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
| 52200 | Iran |
| 53100 | Cyprus |
| 53400 | Israel/Palestine |
| 53420 | Palestine |
| 53700 | Lebanon |
| 54100 | Syria |
| 54200 | Turkey |
| 54800 | Southwest Asia, n.e.c. / n.s. |
| 54900 | Asia Minor, n.s. |
| 59900 | Asia, n.e.c. / n.s. |
| 60011 | Algeria |
| 60012 | Egypt/United Arab Rep. |
| 60014 | Morocco |
| 60016 | Tunisia |
| 60027 | Liberia |
| 60028 | Mali |
| 60031 | Nigeria |
| 60033 | Sierra Leone |
| 60038 | Western Africa, n.s. |
| 60046 | Madagascar |
| 60048 | Mauritius |
| 60054 | Tanzania |
| 60057 | Zimbabwe |
| 60064 | Eastern Africa, n.e.c. / n.s. |
| 60073 | Central African Republic |
| 60075 | Congo |
| 60094 | South Africa (Union of) |
| 60099 | Africa, n.s. / n.e.c. |
| 70010 | Australia |
| 70020 | New Zealand |
| 71012 | Papua New Guinea |
| 71015 | Fiji |
| 71020 | Cook Islands |
| 71022 | French Polynesia |
| 71023 | Tonga |
| 90000 | Abroad (unknown) or at sea |
| 90010 | Abroad, n.s. |
| 90020 | At sea |
| 90021 | At sea (US citizen) |
| 95000 | Other, n.e.c. |
| 99700 | Unknown |
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 U.S. state, the outlying U.S. area or territory, or the foreign country where the person was born. Enumerators simply recorded whatever birthplace respondents reported.
The general code variable (3 digits) covers places available in other U.S. samples. Its first digit more or less corresponds to continents. The makers of the sample preserved as much detail as they thought would be useful to potential users, so some countries are combined into single categories if the number of cases was thought to be too small to be useful.
The general code variable (3 digits) covers places available in other U.S. samples. Its first digit more or less corresponds to continents. The makers of the sample preserved as much detail as they thought would be useful to potential users, so some countries are combined into single categories if the number of cases was thought to be too small to be useful.
Universe
United States 1850 (100%): All persons
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