American Community Survey 2005 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2005

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Reference ID

USA_2005_CS_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center

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Rule for linking mother (US2005A_0403)

Data file: USA2005-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 221

End: 221

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Rule for linking mother

Categories

Value	Category
0	No mother link
1	Unambiguous mother link
2	Daughter/grandchild link
3	Preceding female (no intervening person)
7	Spouse of father becomes stepmother

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 mother. If a link could be made according to more than one rule, the lowest-numbered rule was applied.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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