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American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 1996 (ICPSR 3885)

Published: May 21, 2008

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03885.v1

Version V1

Summary

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities a fresh look at how they are changing. It will replace the decennial long form in future censuses and is a critical element in the Bureau of the Census reengineered 2010 census. The American Community Survey is conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193, and response is mandatory. The scope of the 1996 ACS was limited to housing units, occupied and vacant, in four sites: (1) Brevard County, Florida, a single county MSA, (2) Rockland County, New York, NY Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (PMSA), (3) Multnomah County, Oregon, and the city of Portland, Oregon, a large nonmetropolitan county that is part of multiple county PMSA (includes the entire city of Portland which is located primarily in Multnomah County but also extends into Washington and Clackamas Counties), (4) Fulton County, Pennsylvania, a nonmetropolitan county that does not have a countywide address system at this time, and does not plan to convert to a countywide address system at the time of the survey.

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 1996. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-05-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03885.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1995-11 -- 1996-12

Date of Collection

1995-11 -- 1996-12

Data Collection Notes

Fulton County, Pennsylvania, data was not released.

The setup files are designed to produce SAS, SPSS, or Stata data files of both the housing and population files, and then to merge the two.

Sample

The four sites represented a broad mix of geographic areas ranging from a large, central city in a metropolitan area to a small nonmetropolitan county.

Universe

The 1996 American Community Survey was limited to housing units, occupied and vacant, in four sites: (1) Brevard County, Florida, (2) Rockland County, New York, (3) Multnomah County, Oregon, and (4) Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

Data Type(s)

survey data

Mode of Data Collection

self-enumerated questionnaires

telephone interviews

personal interviews

Original Release Date

2005-07-06

Version Date

2008-05-21

Version History

2006-03-30 File SET03885-ALL.SPS was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-03-30 File QU03885-ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-03-30 File SET03885-ALL.SAS was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-03-30 File SET03885-ALL.DO was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

2006-03-30 File CB03885-ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

Notes

  • Data in this collection are available only to users at ICPSR member institutions.

  • The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.
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