1990 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset
United States, 1990
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USA_1990_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
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- USA1990_PHC-H-H.dat
- USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat
Ancestry, first response (US1990A_ANCESTR1)
Data file: USA1990_PHC-P-H.dat
Overview
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
272
End:
275
Width:
4
Range:
-
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Literal question
<svar a="all" v=" US90A431 US90A433"><span class="em">13. What is this person's ancestry or ethnic origin?</span><br /><div class="i1">(See instruction guide for further information.)<br /><br />____<br />(For example: German, Italian, Afro-Amer., Croatian, Cape Verdean, Dominican, Ecuadorean, Haitian, Cajun, French Canadian, Jamaican, Korean, Lebanese, Mexican, Nigerian, Irish, Polish, Slovak, Taiwanese, Thai, Ukrainian, etc.)</div><br /><br />[Print the ancestry group. Ancestry refers to the person's ethnic origin or descent, "roots," or heritage. Ancestry also may refer to the country of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. All persons, regardless of citizenship status, should answer this question. Persons who have more than one origin and cannot identify with a single ancestry group may report two ancestry groups (for example, German-Irish). Be specific. For example, print whether West Indian, Asian Indian, or American Indian. West Indian includes persons whose ancestors came from Jamaica, Trinidad, Haiti, etc. Distinguish Cape Verdean from Portuguese; French Canadian from Canadian; and Dominican Republic from Dominica Island. A religious group should not be reported as a person's ancestry.]<br /></svar>
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 0010 | Alsatian |
| 0020 | Andorran |
| 0030 | Austrian |
| 0040 | Tirolean |
| 0053 | Basque |
| 0054 | Spanish Basque |
| 0060 | French Basque |
| 0080 | Belgian |
| 0110 | British |
| 0150 | Cornish |
| 0160 | Corsican |
| 0170 | Cypriot |
| 0180 | Greek Cypriote |
| 0190 | Turkish Cypriote |
| 0200 | Danish |
| 0210 | Dutch |
| 0220 | English |
| 0230 | Faeroe Islander |
| 0240 | Finnish |
| 0261 | French |
| 0262 | Occitan |
| 0280 | Breton |
| 0290 | Frisian |
| 0300 | Friulian |
| 0321 | German |
| 0322 | Pennsylvania German |
| 0330 | Bavarian |
| 0400 | Prussian |
| 0410 | Saxon |
| 0460 | Greek |
| 0490 | Icelander |
| 0500 | Irish |
| 0501 | Celtic |
| 0511 | Italian |
| 0680 | Sicilian |
| 0750 | Lapp |
| 0760 | Liechtensteiner |
| 0770 | Luxemburger |
| 0780 | Maltese |
| 0790 | Manx |
| 0800 | Monegasque |
| 0810 | Northern Irelander |
| 0820 | Norwegian |
| 0840 | Portuguese |
| 0850 | Azorean |
| 0860 | Madeiran |
| 0870 | Scotch Irish |
| 0880 | Scottish |
| 0890 | Swedish |
| 0910 | Swiss |
| 0970 | Welsh |
| 0980 | Scandinavian, Nordic |
| 1000 | Albanian |
| 1010 | Azerbaijani |
| 1020 | Belorussian |
| 1030 | Bulgarian |
| 1051 | Carpatho Rusyn |
| 1052 | Rusyn |
| 1080 | Cossack |
| 1082 | Turkestani |
| 1090 | Croatian |
| 1110 | Czechoslovakian |
| 1111 | Czech |
| 1150 | Estonian |
| 1170 | Finno Ugrian |
| 1222 | Germans from Russia |
| 1240 | Rom |
| 1250 | Hungarian |
| 1280 | Latvian |
| 1290 | Lithuanian |
| 1300 | Macedonian |
| 1320 | North Caucasian |
| 1420 | Polish |
| 1440 | Romanian |
| 1452 | Bucovina |
| 1480 | Russian |
| 1521 | Serbian |
| 1523 | Montenegrin |
| 1530 | Slovak |
| 1540 | Slovene |
| 1560 | Soviet Turkic |
| 1640 | Soviet Union, n.e.c. |
| 1650 | Tatar |
| 1711 | Ukrainian |
| 1713 | Ruthenian |
| 1717 | Windish |
| 1760 | Yugoslavian |
| 1780 | Slav |
| 1810 | Central European, n.e.c. |
| 1830 | Northern European, n.e.c. |
| 1850 | Southern European, n.e.c. |
| 1870 | Western European, n.e.c. |
| 1900 | Eastern European, n.e.c. |
| 1950 | European, n.e.c. |
| 2001 | Spaniard |
| 2040 | Catalonian |
| 2062 | Galician |
| 2101 | Mexican |
| 2210 | Costa Rican |
| 2220 | Guatemalan |
| 2230 | Honduran |
| 2240 | Nicaraguan |
| 2251 | Panamanian |
| 2252 | Canal Zone |
| 2260 | Salvadoran |
| 2271 | Central American |
| 2272 | Latin American |
| 2310 | Argentinean |
| 2320 | Bolivian |
| 2330 | Chilean |
| 2340 | Colombian |
| 2350 | Ecuadorian |
| 2360 | Paraguayan |
| 2370 | Peruvian |
| 2380 | Uruguayan |
| 2390 | Venezuelan |
| 2481 | South American |
| 2482 | Criollo/Criolla |
| 2610 | Puerto Rican |
| 2710 | Cuban |
| 2750 | Dominican |
| 2900 | Hispanic |
| 2910 | Spanish |
| 3000 | Bahamian |
| 3010 | Barbadian |
| 3020 | Belizean |
| 3030 | Bermudan |
| 3040 | Cayman Islander |
| 3080 | Jamaican |
| 3100 | Dutch West Indies |
| 3140 | Trinidadian/Tobagonian |
| 3171 | U.S. Virgin Islander |
| 3211 | British Virgin Islander |
| 3220 | British West Indian |
| 3320 | French West Indies |
| 3350 | West Indian |
| 3360 | Haitian |
| 3600 | Brazilian |
| 3650 | San Andres |
| 3700 | Guyanese/British Guiana |
| 3800 | Surinam/Dutch Guiana |
| 4000 | Algerian |
| 4020 | Egyptian |
| 4040 | Libyan |
| 4060 | Moroccan |
| 4080 | Tunisian |
| 4110 | North African |
| 4130 | Berber |
| 4150 | Bahraini |
| 4160 | Iranian |
| 4170 | Iraqi |
| 4190 | Israeli |
| 4210 | Jordanian |
| 4230 | Kuwaiti |
| 4250 | Lebanese |
| 4270 | Saudi Arabian |
| 4290 | Syrian |
| 4310 | Armenian |
| 4340 | Turkish |
| 4350 | Yemeni |
| 4360 | Omani |
| 4420 | Kurdish |
| 4650 | Palestinian |
| 4700 | South Yemeni |
| 4800 | United Arab Emirates |
| 4820 | Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac |
| 4900 | Middle Eastern |
| 4950 | Arab |
| 5000 | Angolan |
| 5020 | Benin |
| 5040 | Botswana |
| 5060 | Burundian |
| 5080 | Cameroonian |
| 5100 | Cape Verdean |
| 5120 | Central African Republic |
| 5130 | Chadian |
| 5150 | Congolese |
| 5200 | Equatorial Guinea |
| 5220 | Ethiopian |
| 5250 | Gabonese |
| 5270 | Gambian |
| 5290 | Ghanian |
| 5300 | Guinean |
| 5320 | Ivory Coast |
| 5340 | Kenyan |
| 5380 | Lesotho |
| 5410 | Liberian |
| 5430 | Madagascan |
| 5450 | Malawian |
| 5460 | Malian |
| 5470 | Mauritanian |
| 5490 | Mozambican |
| 5500 | Namibian |
| 5510 | Niger |
| 5530 | Nigerian |
| 5610 | Rwandan |
| 5640 | Senegalese |
| 5660 | Sierra Leonean |
| 5680 | Somalian |
| 5690 | Swaziland |
| 5700 | South African |
| 5740 | Zulu |
| 5760 | Sudanese |
| 5820 | Tanzanian |
| 5860 | Togo |
| 5880 | Ugandan |
| 5910 | Zairian |
| 5920 | Zambian |
| 5930 | Zimbabwean |
| 5941 | African Islands |
| 5960 | Central African |
| 6000 | Afghan |
| 6031 | Bangladeshi |
| 6070 | Bhutanese |
| 6090 | Nepali |
| 6151 | India |
| 6801 | Pakistani |
| 6900 | Sri Lankan |
| 6950 | Maldivian |
| 7000 | Burmese |
| 7030 | Cambodian |
| 7060 | Chinese |
| 7121 | Mongolian |
| 7122 | Kalmyk |
| 7140 | Tibetan |
| 7160 | Hong Kong |
| 7180 | Macao |
| 7200 | Filipino |
| 7301 | Indonesian |
| 7401 | Japanese |
| 7460 | Ryukyu Islander |
| 7480 | Okinawan |
| 7500 | Korean |
| 7650 | Laotian |
| 7680 | Hmong |
| 7701 | Malaysian |
| 7740 | Singaporean |
| 7760 | Thai |
| 7820 | Taiwanese |
| 7850 | Vietnamese |
| 7900 | Montagnard |
| 7920 | Indochinese |
| 7930 | Eurasian |
| 7931 | Amerasian |
| 7950 | Asian |
| 8000 | Australian |
| 8030 | New Zealander |
| 8080 | Polynesian |
| 8110 | Hawaiian |
| 8140 | Samoan |
| 8150 | Tongan |
| 8160 | Tokelauan |
| 8180 | Tahitian |
| 8190 | Niuean |
| 8200 | Micronesian |
| 8210 | Guamanian |
| 8230 | Saipanese |
| 8240 | Palauan |
| 8250 | Marshall Islander |
| 8270 | Ponapean |
| 8280 | Chuukese |
| 8290 | Yap Islander |
| 8300 | Caroline Islander |
| 8310 | Kiribatese |
| 8320 | Nauruan |
| 8340 | Tinian Islander |
| 8400 | Melanesian Islander |
| 8410 | Fijian |
| 8430 | New Guinean |
| 8460 | New Caledonian Islander |
| 8470 | Vanuatuan |
| 8500 | Pacific Islander |
| 8600 | Oceania |
| 9001 | Afro-American |
| 9130 | Central American Indian |
| 9140 | South American Indian |
| 9200 | American Indian |
| 9210 | Aleut |
| 9220 | Eskimo |
| 9241 | White/Caucasian |
| 9300 | Greenlander |
| 9310 | Canadian |
| 9350 | French Canadian |
| 9361 | Acadain |
| 9390 | American |
| 9400 | United States |
| 9930 | Southerner |
| 9940 | North American |
| 9950 | Mixture |
| 9960 | Uncodable |
| 9980 | Other |
| 9990 | Not Reported |
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 respondent's self-reported ancestry or ethnic origin.
Universe
United States 1990: All persons
concept
Concept
| var_concept.title | Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity and Language Variables -- PERSON | IPUMS |