American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 1996 (ICPSR 3885)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2002 (ICPSR 3893)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2003 (ICPSR 4117)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2004 (ICPSR 4370)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2005 (ICPSR 4587)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2006 (ICPSR 22101)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2007 (ICPSR 24503)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2008 (ICPSR 29263)
American Community Survey (ACS): Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2009 (ICPSR 33802)
American Community Survey (ACS): Three-Year Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), 2005-2007 (ICPSR 25042)
American Housing Survey, 1986: MSA Core and Supplement File (ICPSR 6129)
American Housing Survey, 1986: MSA File (ICPSR 9334)
American Housing Survey, 1990: MSA Core Questions File (ICPSR 6003)
American Housing Survey, 2004: Metropolitan Microdata (ICPSR 4592)
Annual Housing Survey, 1975 [United States]: Travel-to-Work [SMSAs] (ICPSR 7849)
Annual Housing Survey, 1976 [United States]: SMSA Files (ICPSR 7983)
Annual Housing Survey, 1976 [United States]: Travel-to-Work [SMSAs] (ICPSR 8136)
Annual Housing Survey, 1977 [United States]: Travel-to-Work [SMSAs] (ICPSR 8322)
Annual Housing Survey, 1978 [United States]: SMSA File (ICPSR 9017)
Annual Housing Survey, 1982 [United States]: SMSA Files (ICPSR 8310)
Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: P.L. 94-171 Population Counts (ICPSR 7854)
Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States]: Summary Tape File 420, Place of Work 20 Destinations File (ICPSR 6212)
Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Summary File 1, States (ICPSR 3194)
Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Summary File 2, Advance National (ICPSR 13288)
Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Summary File 2, Final National (ICPSR 13403)
Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Summary File 2, Pennsylvania (ICPSR 13271)
Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Summary File 4, Pennsylvania (ICPSR 13550)
Census of Population and Housing: Summary Tape File 4A, United States, 1980 (ICPSR 8282)
Collaborative Multi-racial Post-election Survey (CMPS), 2008 (ICPSR 35163)
Comparative Study of Community Decision-Making (ICPSR 25)
County-Level Estimates of the Population Aged Sixty Years and Over by Age, Sex, and Race, 1977-1980 (ICPSR 7955)
Early Identification of the Serious Habitual Juvenile Offender Using a Birth Cohort in Philadelphia, 1958-1984 (ICPSR 2312)
Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, Philadelphia, PA (ICPSR 33784)
Immigrant Populations as Victims in New York City and Philadelphia, 1994 (ICPSR 6793)
Longitudinal Study of Biosocial Factors Related to Crime and Delinquency, 1959-1962: [Pennsylvania] (ICPSR 8928)
Mortality Detail and Multiple Cause of Death, 1981 (ICPSR 3874)
Multiple Cause of Death, 1968-1973 (ICPSR 3905)
Multiple Cause of Death, 1974-1978 (ICPSR 3906)
Multiple Cause of Death, 1979 (ICPSR 3895)
Multiple Cause of Death, 1980 (ICPSR 3897)
Multiple Cause of Death, 1982 (ICPSR 9880)
Natality Detail File, 2003 [United States] (ICPSR 4706)
Natality Detail File, 2004 [United States] (ICPSR 4707)
Natality Detail File, 2005 [United States] (ICPSR 22960)
Natality Detail File, 2006 [United States] (ICPSR 24941)
National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975 (ICPSR 7658)
Office of Revenue Sharing: Fifth Count File, 1970 (ICPSR 77)
Philadelphia Social History Project: Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Society of Friends Manuscript Census Schedules, 1838, 1847, 1856 (ICPSR 3805)
Initially taken in 1838 to demonstrate the stability and significance of the African American community and to forestall the abrogation of African American voting rights, the Quaker and Abolitionist census of African Americans was continued in 1847 and 1856 and present an invaluable view of the mid-nineteenth century African American population of Philadelphia. Although these censuses list only household heads, providing aggregate information for other household members, and exclude the substantial number of African Americans living in white households, they provide data not found in the federal population schedules. When combined with the information on African Americans taken from the four federal censuses, they offer researchers a richly detailed view of Philadelphia's African American community spanning some forty years.
The three censuses are not of equal inclusiveness or quality, however. The 1838 and 1847 enumerations cover only the "old" City of Philadelphia (river-to-river and from Vine to South Streets) and the immediate surrounding districts (Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, Southwark, Moyamensing, Kensington--1838, West Philadelphia--1847); the 1856 survey includes African Americans living throughout the newly enlarged city which, as today, conforms to the boundaries of Philadelphia County. In spite of this deficiency in areal coverage, the earlier censuses are superior historical documents. The 1838 and 1847 censuses contain data on a wide range of social and demographic variables describing the household indicating address, household size, occupation, whether members were born in Pennsylvania, status-at-birth, debts, taxes, number of children attending school, names of beneficial societies and churches (1838), property brought to Philadelphia from other states (1838), sex composition (1847), age structure (1847), literacy (1847), size of rooms and number of people per room (1847), and miscellaneous remarks (1847). While the 1856 census includes the household address and reports literacy, occupation, status-at-birth, and occasional passing remarks about individual households and their occupants, it excludes the other informational categories. Moreover, unlike the other two surveys, it lists the occupations of only higher status African Americans, excluding unskilled and semiskilled designations, and records the status-at-birth of adults only. Indeed, it even fails to provide data permitting the calculation of the size and age and sex structure of households.
Variables for each household head and his household include (differ slightly by census year): name, sex, status-at-birth, occupation, wages, real and personal property, literacy, education, religion, membership in beneficial societies and temperance societies, taxes, rents, dwelling size, address, slave or free birth.