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2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015
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USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Citizenship status (US2015A_CITIZEN)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 319
End: 319
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">[E] - Answer questions about Person 1 on the next page if you listed at least one person on page 2. Otherwise, skip to page 28 for the mailing instructions.</span></p>

<p>8. Is this person a citizen of the United States? </p>
<div class="i1">[] Yes, born in the United States [Skip to 10a]<br />[] Yes, born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Northern Marianas<br />[] Yes, born abroad of U.S. citizen parent or parents<br />[] Yes, U.S. citizen by naturalization. Print year of naturalization _ _ _ _ <br />[] No, not a U.S. citizen</div>
Categories
Value Category
NIU (not in universe)
1 Born abroad of American parents
2 Naturalized citizen
3 Not a citizen
9 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 person's citizenship status. Persons not born in 51 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, or Northern Mariana Islands are considered as foreign-born persons.
Universe
United States 2015: Foreign-born persons [discrepancies: type I none; type II trace]

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