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1970 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1970
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USA_1970_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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Ownership of dwelling (US1970A_OWNERSHP)

Data file: USA1970_PHC-H-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 164
End: 164
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<svar a="all" v="US70A020 US70A029">[All]<br /><span class="em">H9. Are your living quarters - </span><br /><br /><div class="i1">[] Owned or being bought by you or by someone else in this household? Do not include cooperatives and condominiums here.<br />[] A cooperative or condominium which is owned or being bought by you or by someone else in your household?<br />[] Rented for cash rent?<br />[] Occupied without payment of cash rent?</div><br /><br />"<span class="em">Owned or being bought</span> means that the living quarters are owned outright or are mortgaged. Also mark <span class="em">Owned or being bought</span> if the living quarters are owned but the land is rented. Mark <span class="em">Rented for cash rent</span> if any money rent is paid. Rent may be paid by persons who are not members of your household. <span class="em">Occupied without payment of cash rent</span> includes, for example, a parsonage, a house or apartment provided free of rent by the owner, or a house or apartment occupied by a janitor or caretaker in exchange for services."<br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 NIU (not in universe)
1 Owned or being bought
2 No cash rent
3 With cash rent
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 whether the household rented or owned its housing unit. Households that acquired their unit with a mortgage or other lending arrangement are understood to "own" their unit even if they had not yet completed repayment.
Universe
United States 1970: Occupied, private dwellings [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Household Economic Variables -- HOUSEHOLD IPUMS
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