Voting and Registration in the Election of ..., Volume 3, Issue 2U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1993 |
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11 months 12th grade 24 years old 5th to 8th 8th grade 9th to 12th Administrative support Advanced degree Agricultural industries associate degree Bachelor's degree Black Hispanic origin¹ Black Total Census Civilian labor force Civilian noninstitutional population college or associate diploma Duration of residence employment status Enrolled in school Government workers High school graduate Hispanic origin labor force Employed Less than 5th Male Female White meaning of symbols Nonagricultural industries Number Percent Number Number Percent Total Numbers in thousands Owner-occupied units Percent Number Percent Percent Total Registered persons Number Percent Private wage registered All persons registered Reported voted Renter-occupied units reported on registration reported on registration³ Reported registered Reported Reported voted Reported salary workers Self-employed workers4 Sexes Total standard errors Total age 18 Total Civilian labor Total Male Female Total Registered Total2 U.S. citizen Unemployed vote¹ Not registered voting age Voting and Registration Wage and salary White Total
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Page 11 - 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; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is either (1) direct access from the outside or through a common hall or (2) a kitchen or cooking equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.
Page 7 - ... registering at a public or private employment office, meeting with prospective employers, checking with friends or relatives, placing or answering advertisements, writing letters of application, or being on a union or professional register. (21 were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off; or (3) were waiting to report to a new wage or salary job within 30 days.
Page 6 - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who A-2 share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit or a group of unrelated persons sharing a housing unit as partners is also counted as a household.
Page 6 - ... operated by a member of the family, and (2) all those who were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent because of illness, bad weather, vacation, or labor-management dispute, or because they were taking time off for personal reasons...
Page 6 - Householder. 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 7 - 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 2 - Nonsampling errors can be attributed to many sources, eg, inability to obtain information about all cases in the sample, definitional difficulties, differences in the interpretation of questions, inability or unwillingness...
Page 6 - Married Couple. A married couple, as defined for census purposes, is a husband and wife enumerated as members of the same household. The married couple may or may not have children living with them. The expression "husband-wife" or "married-couple" before the term "household," "family," or "subfamily" indicates that the household, family, or subfamily is maintained by a husband and wife.
Page 9 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page 6 - Family A group of two persons or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together.