1980 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 1980

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Reference ID

PRI_1980_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Metropolitan status 5 years ago (PR1980A_MIGTYPE5)

Data file: PRI1980_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 323

End: 323

Width: 1

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="PR80A460 PR80A461 PR80A465" v="PR80A459 PR80A460 PR80A461 PR80A465"><span class="em">12b. Where did ____ live five years ago (April 1, 1975)? </span><br /><div class="i1">(1) Name of municipality, U.S. state, Virgin Islands, or foreign country: ____<br /> (2) Name of barrio or U.S. county ____<br /> (3) Name of city, town or village ____</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
	NIU (not in universe)
1	Not in a metro area
2	In a metro area, central city status unknown
3	Central city
4	Not central city
9	Unknown

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Description

Definition

This variable indicates a person's metropolitan status 5 years ago.

Universe

Puerto Rico 1980: Persons 5+, in the migration sample [discrepancies: none]

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Concept

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