United States Census of 1850 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1850

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USA_1850_PHC-1PCT_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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Number of own family members in household (US1850B_FAMSIZE)

Data file: USA1850_PHC-1PCT-P-H

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Type: Discrete

Start: 255

End: 256

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
01	1 family member present
02	2 family member present
03	3 family member present
04	4 family member present
05	5 family member present
06	6 family member present
07	7 family member present
08	8 family member present
09	9 family member present
10	10 family member present
11	11 family member present
12	12 family member present
13	13 family member present
14	14 family member present
15	15 family member present
16	16 family member present
17	17 family member present
19	19 family member present

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.

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Number of own family members in household.

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United States 1850 (1%): All persons

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