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2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015
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Relationship to household head (US2015A_RELATE)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 293
End: 296
Width: 4
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
2. How is this person related to Person 1? </p>
<div class="i1">[] Husband or wife <br />[] Biological son or daughter <br />[] Adopted son or daughter<br />[] Stepson or stepdaughter <br />[] Brother or sister <br />[] Father or mother<br />[] Grandchild<br />[] Parent-in-law<br />[] Son-in-law or daughter-in-law<br />[] Other relative<br />[] Roomer or boarder<br />[] Housemate or roommate<br />[] Unmarried partner<br />[] Foster child<br />[] Other nonrelative</div>
Categories
Value Category
0101 Head/householder
0201 Spouse
0301 Child
0302 Adopted child
0303 Stepchild
0401 Child-in-law
0501 Parent
0601 Parent-in-law
0701 Sibling
0801 Sibling-in-law
0901 Grandchild
1001 Other relatives, n.s.
1114 Unmarried partner
1115 Housemate/roommate
1241 Roomer/boarders/lodgers
1242 Foster children
1260 Other non-relatives (1990 includes employees)
1270 Non-inmate 1990 (includes military, students, employees, boarders)
1301 Institutional inmates
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 relationship to household head.
Universe
United States 2015: All persons

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