Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States]: Summary Tape File 3A (ICPSR 9782)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
Summary:
Summary Tape File 3A contains sample data weighted to represent the total population. The collection also contains 100-percent counts and unweighted sample counts for total persons and total housing units. Additional population and housing variables include age, ancestry, disability, citizenship, education, income, marital status, race, sex, travel time to work, rent, tenure, value of housing unit, number of vehicles, and monthly owner costs. The data for the states include 178 population tables and 99 housing tables. The information for Puerto Rico includes 149 population tables and 101 housing tables. Data are provided for states and Puerto Rico and their subareas in hierarchical sequence down to the block group level.
Series: Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States] Series
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Citation
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States]: Summary Tape File 3A. ICPSR09782-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-12-29. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09782.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09782.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: automobile expenses, census data, citizenship, commuting (travel), demographic characteristics, disabilities, education, ethnicity, family background, family history, household composition, housing, housing conditions, income, marital status, population, states (USA)
Geographic Coverage: 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 (state), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington
Time Period:
- 1990
Date of Collection:
- 1990
Universe: All persons and housing units in the United States.
Data Types: census/enumeration data, survey data
Data Collection Notes:
The codebook for All Parts Except Puerto Rico is provided as an ASCII text file. The codebook for Puerto Rico is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
Methodology
Data Source:
self-enumerated questionnaires
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1993-02-11
Version History:
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 88 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 87 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 86 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 85 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 84 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 83 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 82 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 81 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 80 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.
- 1999-12-29 Part 72, Puerto Rico, has been added to the data collection, with corresponding PDF codebook, database dictionaries, and SAS and SPSS data definition statements.
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