Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Dwelling and person

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Every separate and independent structure that has been constructed or converted for use as temporary or permanent housing. This includes any class of fixed or mobile shelter used as a place of lodging at the time of enumeration. A dwelling can be a) a private house, apartment, floor in a house, room or group of rooms, ranch, etc. designed to give lodging to one person or a group of people or b) a boat, vehicle, railroad car, barn, shed, or any other type of shelter occupied as a place of lodging at the time of enumeration. - Households: All the occupying members of a family or private dwelling that live together as family. In most cases, a household is made up of a head of the family, relatives of this person (wife or partner, children, grand-children, nieces and nephews, etc.), close friends, guests, lodgers, domestic employees and all other occupants. Households with five or fewer lodgers are considered private,but households with six or more lodgers are considered a non-family group. - Group quarters: Accommodation for a group of people who are not usually connected by kinship ties who live together for reasons of discipline, healthcare, education, mlitary activity, religion, work or other dwellings such as reform schools, boarding schools, barracks, hopsitals, guest houses, nursing homes, workers camps, etc.

Universe

Population in private and communal housing

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Institute of Statistics

SAMPLE DESIGN: Systematic sample of every 10th household with a random start, drawn by the Minnesota Population Center

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 10%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 268,248

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Single record that includes housing and population questionnaires

This data collection contains 132 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) files from the 1970 Census of Population and Housing. Information is provided in these files on the housing unit, such as occupancy and vacancy status of house, tenure, value of property, commercial use, year structure was built, number of rooms, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage disposal, bathtub or shower, complete kitchen facilities, flush toilet, water, telephone, and air conditioning. Data are also provided on household characteristics such as the number of persons aged 18 years and younger in the household, the presence of roomers, boarders, or lodgers, the presence of other nonrelative and of relative other than wife or child of head of household, the number of persons per room, the rent paid for unit, and the number of persons with Spanish surnames. Other demographic variables provide information on age, race, marital status, place of birth, state of birth, Puerto Rican heritage, citizenship, education, occupation, employment status, size of family, farm earnings, and family income. This hierarchical data collection contains approximately 214 variables for the 15-percent sample, 227 variables for the 5-percent sample, and 117 variables for the neighborhood characteristics sample. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 06/09/2011).

A household consists of all the people occupying a housing unit. A household includes related and unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit such as partners or roomers, is also counted as a household. The count of households excludes group quarters. Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census Years Available: 2010, 2011-2015

This data collection (one-in-one thousand person national sample), which contains individual-level data from the 1960 Census of Population and Housing, provides information on household and personal characteristics. Data on household characteristics include the structure of the house, housing quality, the head of the household, roomers, boarders or lodgers, the number of rooms, the number of persons per room, rent, the year moved into unit, tenure, commercial usage, farmland, the availability of telephones, television, bathtub or shower, flush toilet, heating equipment, sewage disposal, and the source of water. Demographic information includes sex, race, age, place of birth, education, employment, income, family unit membership, age at first marriage, number of times married, and veteran status. (Source: downloaded from ICPSR 7/13/10)

Please Note: This dataset is part of the historical CISER Data Archive Collection and is also available at ICPSR at https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00054.v1. We highly recommend using the ICPSR version as they may make this dataset available in multiple data formats in the future.

This study contains Public Use Microdata Samples taken from the 1970 Census of Population and Housing for Puerto Rico. The sample size is one-in-a-hundred, or one sample unit (household, vacant unit, or person in group quarters) for every one hundred such units in the population. The data include information such as occupancy and vacancy status of house, tenure, value of property, commercial use, year structure was built, number of rooms, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage disposal, bathtub or shower, water, electric lighting, telephone, and growing produce for home consumption. Data are also provided on household characteristics such as the number of persons aged 18 years and younger in the household, the presence of roomers, boarders, or lodgers, the presence of other nonrelative and of relative other than wife or child of head of household, the number of persons per room, the rent paid for unit, and the number of persons with Spanish surnames. Other demographic variables provide information on age, marital status, place of birth, state of birth, Puerto Rican heritage, English fluency, citizenship, education, occupation, employment status, size of family, farm earnings, and family income. "Municipio" roughly corresponds to "County" group samples.