Census of Population and Housing, 1970 [United States]: Summary Statistic File 4A -- Housing [Fourth Count] (ICPSR 8126)

Published: Jan 12, 2006

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

Series:

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

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08126.v1

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Project Description

Summary

These data are from the 20-, 15-, and 5-percent samples of the 1970 United States Census of Population and Housing, and contain tabulations of housing characteristics such as housing value, number of housing units in structure, number of rooms in housing unit, year structure was built, occupancy/vacancy status, tenure, rent, type of heating fuel, source of water, and presence of an air conditioner and other home appliances. The unit of observation for these data files is the census tract. There is one file for each of 48 states and the District of Columbia. The Census Bureau did not issue data for Vermont and Wyoming because these two states were not tracted in 1970.

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1970 [United States]: Summary Statistic File 4A -- Housing [Fourth Count]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08126.v1

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Subject Terms

census data census tract level demographic characteristics ethnicity household composition housing housing conditions housing costs housing occupancy housing units population population characteristics states (USA)

Geographic Coverage

North Carolina Indiana Wyoming Utah Arizona Montana Kentucky California Kansas Florida Delaware Pennsylvania Mississippi Iowa Illinois Texas Connecticut Georgia Virginia Maryland Idaho Vermont Oregon Oklahoma Maine Tennessee Alabama Arkansas South Carolina Washington Nebraska West Virginia Massachusetts Colorado Missouri Alaska North Dakota Wisconsin Nevada Rhode Island District of Columbia South Dakota Hawaii Minnesota New York (state) New Jersey Michigan New Mexico New Hampshire Louisiana Ohio

Scope of Project

Time Period(s)

1970

Date of Collection

1970

Data Collection Notes

In the 1970 Census Users' Guide, this data collection is named "Fourth Count Housing Summary Tape, File A."

The codebook, Part 70, Codebook for All Parts, consists of Parts 1 and 2 of the 1970 Census Users' Guide published by the Bureau of the Census.

The data were provided to ICPSR by the Center of Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin.

Part numbers correspond to FIPS codes of states and are not consecutive.

The number of tracts (cases) varies by state. For the entire United States, there are approximately 35,000 tracts. Each case comprises up to 37 records and has a maximum of 7,236 variables.

Methodology

Universe

All persons and housing units in the United States.

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

census/enumeration data

Version(s)

Original Release Date

2001-03-27

Version Date

2006-01-12

Version History

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 70 and flagged as study-level files, so that they 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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