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Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics (ICPSR 3192)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
Summary:
The Profiles of General Demographic Characteristics data are released as individual files for each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, as well as for all 50 states combined (Part 61) and for the entire United States (Part 60). The files contain the 100-percent data, which is the information compiled from questions asked of all people and about every housing unit. The population items include sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino, household relationship, household type, group quarters population, housing occupancy, and housing tenure. The profiles include a total of 71 population and 25 housing data items.
Series: Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States] Series
Access Notes
These data are freely available.
Dataset(s)
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Study Description
Citation
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 2000 [UNITED STATES]: PROFILES OF GENERAL DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03192.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03192.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: census data, demographic characteristics, ethnicity, group homes, Hispanic origins, household composition, housing, housing occupancy, housing units, 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, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, United States
Time Period:
- 2000
Date of Collection:
- 2000
Universe: All persons and housing units in the United States in 2000.
Data Types: census data
Data Collection Notes:
(1) The data items are identical in each of the files, but the geographic coverage differs. The Summary Level Sequence Chart on page 2-1 of the codebook outlines the hierarchical and inventory geographic summaries in their entirety. (2) The part numbers are not consecutive. They correspond to the FIPS codes for states. (3) The codebook is provided by the principal investigator as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.
Methodology
Data Source:
self-enumerated questionnaires
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 2001-07-26
Version History:
- 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 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.
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