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UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: no - Vacant Units: Yes - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: no
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: no - Households: Dwelling places excluding institutions and transient quarters. - Group quarters: Not included in microdata sample.
Residents of the 50 states (not the outlying areas) living in their residence for at least two months, excluding populations living in collective dwellings
Sample survey data [ssd]
MICRODATA SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau
SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 2878380.
SAMPLE DESIGN: 1-in-100 national random sample drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau
Face-to-face [f2f]
The 2005 American Community Survey employed a single long form questionnaire completed by one of 100 households.
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UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: yes - Vacant Units: Yes - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: yes
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: no - Households: Dwelling places excluding institutions and transient quarters. A housing unit may be a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms or a single room that is occupied (or, if vacant, intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters. - Group quarters: A place where people live or stay, in a group living arrangement, that is owned or managed by an entity or organization providing housing and/or services for the residents. These services may include custodial or medical care as well as other types of assistance, and residency in commonly restricted to those receiving these services. People living in group quarters are usually not related to each other. Group quarters inlcude such places as college residence halls, residential treatment centers, skilled nursing facilities, group homes, military barracks, correctional facilities, and workers' dormitories.
Resident population. For the United States, the resident population includes all persons who usually reside in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, but excludes residents of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Island areas under U.S. sovereignty or jurisdiction (principally American Samoa, Guam, United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). In addition, the U.S. resident population excludes U.S. Armed Forces overseas and civilian U.S. citizens whose usual place of residence is outside the United States.
Sample survey data [ssd]
MICRODATA SOURCE: United States Census Bureau
SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 15441673.
SAMPLE DESIGN: 1-in-100 national random sample drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau
Face-to-face [f2f]
The 2020 American Community Survey employed a single long form questionnaire completed by one of 100 households and group quarters.
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UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: yes - Vacant Units: Yes - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: yes
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: no - Households: Dwelling places excluding institutions and transient quarters. - Group quarters: A place where people live or stay, in a group living arrangement, that is owned or managed by an entity or organization providing housing and/or services for the residents. These services may include custodial or medical care as well as other types of assistance, and residency in commonly restricted to those receiving these services. People living in group quarters are usually not related to each other. Group quarters inlcude such places as college residence halls, residential treatment centers, skilled nursing facilities, group homes, military barracks, correctional facilities, and workers' dormitories.
Residents of the 50 states (not the outlying areas).
Sample survey data [ssd]
MICRODATA SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau
SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 3061692.
SAMPLE DESIGN: 1-in-100 national random sample drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau
Face-to-face [f2f]
The 2010 American Community Survey employed a single long form questionnaire completed by one of 100 households and group quarters.
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UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: Yes - Vacant Units: Yes - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: Yes
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: no - Households: Dwelling places excluding institutions and transient quarters. A housing unit may be a house, an apartment, a mobile home, a group of rooms or a single room that is occupied (or, if vacant, intended for occupancy) as separate living quarters. - Group quarters: A place where people live or stay, in a group living arrangement, that is owned or managed by an entity or organization providing housing and/or services for the residents. These services may include custodial or medical care as well as other types of assistance, and residency in commonly restricted to those receiving these services. People living in group quarters are usually not related to each other. Group quarters inlcude such places as college residence halls, residential treatment centers, skilled nursing facilities, group homes, military barracks, correctional facilities, and workers' dormitories.
Resident population. For the United States, the resident population includes all persons who usually reside in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, but excludes residents of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Island areas under U.S. sovereignty or jurisdiction (principally American Samoa, Guam, United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). In addition, the U.S. resident population excludes U.S. Armed Forces overseas and civilian U.S. citizens whose usual place of residence is outside the United States.
Sample survey data [ssd]
MICRODATA SOURCE: United States Census Bureau
SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 15637457.
SAMPLE DESIGN: 1-in-100 national random sample drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau
Face-to-face [f2f]
The 2015 American Community Survey employed a single long form questionnaire completed by one of 100 households and group quarters.
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UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: no - Vacant Units: Yes - Households: yes - Individuals: yes - Group quarters: no
UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: no - Households: Dwelling places excluding institutions and transient quarters. - Group quarters: Not included in microdata sample.
Residents of the 50 states (not the outlying areas) living in their residence for at least two months, excluding populations living in collective dwellings
Sample survey data [ssd]
MICRODATA SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau
SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 2878380.
SAMPLE DESIGN: 1-in-100 national random sample drawn by the U.S. Census Bureau
Face-to-face [f2f]
The 2005 American Community Survey employed a single long form questionnaire completed by one of 100 households.