2005 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2001 - 2005

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Reference ID

USA_2005_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

Metadata

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Rule for linking father (US2005A_POPRULE)

Data file: USA2005_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 259

End: 259

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
	No father link
1	Unambiguous father link
2	Son/granchild link
3	Preceding male (no intervening person)
7	Husband of mother becomes stepfather

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 reports the number of the rule for the link of a person to a probable father. If a link could be made according to more than one rule, the lowest-numbered rule was applied.

Universe

United States 2005: All persons

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Concept

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