Selected County-Level Variables from the Fourth Count 1970 U.S. Census of Population and Housing

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary: This study contains data retrieved from the CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1970: FOURTH COUNT summary files on selected items that were not included in the COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1972 (ICPSR 0061). Data on age, sex, ethnicity, place of birth, level of education, employment status, occupation, and family income are reported for the population of each county and county equivalent in the United States as well as the District of Columbia. County equivalents are parishes in Louisiana, c... (more info)

Series: Census of Population and Housing, 1970 [United States] Series

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U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. SELECTED COUNTY-LEVEL VARIABLES FROM THE FOURTH COUNT 1970 U.S. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING. Compiled by John McAdams, Harvard University. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1991. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07507.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07507.v1

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Summary: This study contains data retrieved from the CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1970: FOURTH COUNT summary files on selected items that were not included in the COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1972 (ICPSR 0061). Data on age, sex, ethnicity, place of birth, level of education, employment status, occupation, and family income are reported for the population of each county and county equivalent in the United States as well as the District of Columbia. County equivalents are parishes in Louisiana, census divisions in Alaska, and independent cities in Virginia and Missouri. Identification variables such as names of counties, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas codes, and both the Census Bureau and ICPSR state and county codes are also provided. The data were originally compiled from the 1970 Census summary tapes by John McAdams of Harvard University. ICPSR added identification codes and county names, reformatted some substantive variables, and corrected some SMSA code values.

Subject Terms: census data, citizenship, demographic characteristics, education, employment, ethnicity, household composition, housing, housing units, housing conditions, income, occupational status, occupations, population, population characteristics

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period:

1970

Universe: Population of the United States in 1970.

Data Types: census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) The data map is provided as an ASCII text file.

Data Source:

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1970: FOURTH COUNT

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-28

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Austin, Erik W., Clubb, Jerome M., Granda, Peter A., Flanigan, William H., Zingale, Nancy . Electoral participation in the United States, 1968-1986. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 16, (1), 145-164.