ICPSR Metadata record for Census Tract-Level Data, 1960 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Census Tract-Level Data, 1960 United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2007-12-13 7552 doi://10.3886/ICPSR07552.v1
This data collection contains selected variables at the tract level from the 1960 Census of Population and Housing. Information is provided on population characteristics such as urban and rural residency, number of White and nonwhite population, persons aged 5, 14, 25, and older, nonwhite females aged 14 and older, married women in the labor force, persons in the experienced civilian labor force, and persons with Puerto Rican or Spanish birth or parentage, including the age and marital status of those with a Puerto Rican or Spanish surname. Information is also provided on housing characteristics such as occupancy and vacancy status of house, contract rent and gross rent, quality and value of housing, basement facilities, plumbing, heating equipment, source of water, sewage disposal, bathrooms and rooms, persons per room, household structure, units in structure, and persons in household unit, as well as household relationships. Other demographic variables provide information on age, race, sex, marital status, residence, years of schooling, occupation, employment status, place of work, and family income. The data were obtained from DUALabs, Inc.
 UniverseScheme07552 Census of Population and Housing, 1960 [United States] Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00013. ICPSR.I.A.1.a age census data census tract level censuses counties demographic characteristics education household composition household income housing housing conditions labor force marital status occupations populations race rental housing rural areas urban areas White Americans Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington 1960 1960 census/enumeration data Persons aged 14 years and older in developed and vacant housing units in the United States. ICPSR
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