1980 Census of Population and Housing: Users' GuideU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1982 |
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Age of Householder Aleut Allocated American Indian asked Attn basis see questionnaire block block statistics boundaries Census Bureau census county divisions census data census tracts Codes complete plumbing complete-count condominium Condominium Housing districts Division DUSD enumeration farm figure fuel Geographic areas Gross Rent group quarters Historical comparability Household Type included INCOME IN 1979 Labor Force Status maps MCD's Metropolitan Statistical Areas microdata microfiche minor civil division Mobile home Monthly Owner Costs Occupied Housing Units Office P.O. Box Pacific Islander person in column Persons 16 PERSONS IN HOUSEHOLD Plumbing Facilities population and housing poverty level Poverty Status Puerto Rico question questionnaire item race Renter occupied Repeat Age reports residence Selected Monthly Owner SMSA SMSA's Spanish origin Specified Spouse standard error statistics STATUS IN 1979 STF's STF2 STF4 Street summary tape files TENURE Units In Structure Universe Vacancy Status vacant week workers
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Page 3 - The statistics from this question refer to the total amount of all real estate taxes on the entire property (land and buildings) payable in 1989 to all taxing jurisdictions, including special assessments, school taxes, county taxes, and so forth.
Page 5 - Generally, median age is computed on the basis of more detailed age intervals than are shown in some census publications; thus, a median based on a less detailed distribution may differ slightly from a corresponding median for the same population based on a more detailed distribution. (For more information on medians, see the discussion under "Derived Measures.") Limitation of the Data— Counts in 1970 and 1980 for persons 100 years old and over were substantially overstated.
Page 3 - persons in household" match those for "persons in unit" in tabulations based on complete-count data. In sample tabulations, they may differ because of the weighting process. The phrase "persons in household" is used for population tabulations, "persons in unit
Page 9 - Operating expenses include cost of feed, fertilizer, seed, and other farming supplies, cash wages paid to farmhands, depreciation charges, cash rent, interest on farm mortgages, farm building repairs, farm taxes (not State and Federal personal income taxes), etc.
Page 138 - Poverty status was determined for all persons except institutionalized persons, persons in military group quarters and in college dormitories, and unrelated individuals under 15 years old.
Page 10 - Civilians 16 years old and over who were either (a) "at work"— those who did any work at all as paid employees or in their own business or profession, or on their own farm, or who worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers on a family farm or in a family business; or (b) "with a job but not at work...
Page 15 - A cross-tabulation is denoted where "by" is used as the conjunction between variable terms, for example, age by sex or age by sex by race. CROWDING. See PERSONS PER ROOM DATA. (1) Two or more individual information elements (data items), often synonymous with "statistics"; (2) a general term used to denote any or all facts or quantities represented by numbers, letters, or symbols; and (3) basic elements of information that can be processed or produced by a computer. DATA DICTIONARY. The portion of...
Page 14 - Any differences between the number of "now married, spouse present" males and females are due solely to sample weighting. By definition, the numbers would be the same.
Page 14 - In certain tabulations, currently married persons are further classified as "spouse present" or "spouse absent." Separated— Includes persons legally separated or otherwise absent from their spouse because of marital discord. Included are persons who have been deserted or who have parted because they no longer want to live together but who have not obtained a divorce.
Page 8 - ... was set at three times the cost of the economy food plan. For smaller families and persons living alone, the cost of the economy food plan was multiplied by factors that were slightly higher to compensate for the relatively larger fixed expenses for these smaller households.