Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Master Area Reference File (MARF) 5 (ICPSR 8323)

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

Summary:

Master Area Reference Files (MARFs) link geographic areas with their respective numeric codes. This data collection is a five-digit ZIP-code equivalency file created for the 1980 Census of Population and Housing. The data contain geographic items from Summary Tape Files 1A and 3A, as well as total population and housing unit counts. This equivalency file was created to allow users to prepare additional data summaries relevant to ZIP-code areas. The file enables users to equate detailed record files having ZIP codes with census geographic units. This national file is hierarchically sequenced by geographic area.

Series: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States] Series

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Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Master Area Reference File (MARF) 5. ICPSR08323-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08323.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08323.v1

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Scope of Study

Subject Terms: census data, housing, housing units, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, minor civil divisions, population, states (USA), zip code areas

Geographic Coverage: United States

Time Period:

1980

Date of Collection:

1980

Universe: All persons and housing units in the United States in 1980.

Data Types: census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

This hierarchical file contains 589,491 records. There are seven possible record types sequenced as follows: (1) state (including the District of Columbia), (2) county, (3) minor civil division (MCD) or census county division (CCD), (4) place or segment within MCD/CCD or remainder of MCD/CCD, (5) census tract or block numbering area (BNA), (6) block group (BG) or, for areas not block-numbered, enumeration district (ED), and (7) school district or ZIP-code area. There are approximately 95 variables in the dataset.