Current Population Reports: Population characteristics. Series P-20

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U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1992

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Page 9 - A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters...
Page 11 - TO 24 YEARS OLD 25 TO 34 YEARS OLD 35 TO 44 YEARS OLD 45 TO 64 YEARS OLD 65 YEARS OLD AND OVER . MARRIED 10MEN IN LABOR FORCE.
Page 8 - Race. The population is divided into three groups on the basis of race: White, Black, and other races.
Page 10 - Persons employed at more than one job are counted only once in the census and are classified according to the job at which they worked the greatest number of hours during the reference week.
Page 9 - The householder refers to the person (or one of the persons) in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented (maintained) or, if there is no such person, any adult member, excluding roomers, boarders, or paid employees. If the house is owned or rented jointly by a married couple, the householder may be either the husband or the wife. The person designated as the householder is the "reference person" to whom the relationship of all other household members, if any, is recorded.
Page 9 - unrelated individuals" refers to persons (other than inmates of institutions) who are not living with any relatives. An unrelated individual may...
Page 7 - Census, the farm population consists of persons living in rural territory on places of 10 or more acres from which sales of farm products amounted to $50 or more in 1959...
Page 8 - A household consists of all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for...
Page 9 - Family. A family is a group of two persons or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such persons (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family.
Page 6 - Therefore, a conclusion that the average estimate derived from all possible samples lies within a range computed in this way would be correct for roughly 90 percent of all possible samples.

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