2000 Census of Population and Housing - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2000

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USA_2000_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

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U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

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Metropolitan status 5 years ago, 2000 (US2000A_MIGTYP00)

Data file: USA2000_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 545

End: 546

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v="US00A476 US00A477 US00A478 US00A479 US00A481 US00A602 US00A607"><span class="em">15. b. Where did this person live 5 years ago? </span><br /><div class="i1">____ Name of city, town, or post office<br /><br /><span class="em">Did this person live inside the limits of the city or town?</span><br />[] Yes<br />[] No, outside the city/town limits</div><br /><br /><div class="i2">____ Name of county<br />____ Name of state<br />_ _ _ _ _ ZIP code</div><br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
00	NIU (not in universe)
01	Lived outside of the U S and Puerto Rico in 1995
02	Lived in Puerto Rico in 1995 and in the U S in 2000
11	Inside central city
12	Outside central city
13	Both inside and outside central city
14	Contains an entire MSA and no other territory
21	Inside central city
22	Outside central city
23	Both inside and outside central city
31	Inside central city
32	Outside central city
33	Both inside and outside central city
34	Contains an entire PMSA and no other territory
41	Inside central city
42	Outside central city
43	Both inside and outside central city
44	Contains an entire PMSA and no other territory
51	Inside central city
52	Outside central city
53	Both inside and outside central city
70	Contains both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan territory
80	Contains only metropolitan territory in two or more partial and/or entire MSAs/PMSAs/CMSAs
90	Contains only nonmetropolitan territory

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 whether the person lived in a metropolitan or non-metropolitan area 5 years ago, in terms of the smallest geographic identifier available in that census sample.

Universe

United States 2000: Persons age 5+ who lived in a different house 5 years ago [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept

var_concept.title	Vocabulary
Migration: Global Variables -- PERSON	IPUMS

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