Census of Population and Housing 1980 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1980

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Reference ID

USA_1980_PHC_v01_M_v02_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, Minnesota Population Center

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Family unit membership (US1980A_0418)

Data file: USA1980-P-H

Overview

Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 208

End: 208

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

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Literal question

Family unit membership

Categories

Value	Category
1	1st family in household or group quarters
2	2nd family in household
3	3rd
4	4th
5	5th
6	6th
7	7th
8	8th
9	9th

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 which family within the dwelling each person belongs to. If there is only one group of related individuals, all of them will be coded 1; if there is a second, separate such group, all members of that family group will be coded 2, and so on.

Universe

All persons

concept

Concept

Name	Vocabulary
Constructed Family Interrelationship Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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