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2015 The Puerto Rico Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

Puerto Rico, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
PRI_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
U.S. Census Bureau, IPUMS
Collection(s)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Aug 01, 2025
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Number of major race groups (PR2015A_RACNUM)

Data file: PRI2015_PHC-P-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 424
End: 424
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="ital">Note: Please answer both question 5 about Hispanic origin and question 6 about race. For this survey, Hispanic origins are not races.</span></p>

<p>6. What is person 1's race? </p>
<div class="i1">Mark (x) one or more boxes<br /><br />[] White<br />[] Black or African Am.<br />[] American Indian or Alaska Native - print name of enrolled or principal tribe ______<br />[] Asian Indian<br />[] Chinese<br />[] Filipino<br />[] Japanese<br />[] Korean<br />[] Vietnamese<br />[] Other Asian - print race, for example, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, Cambodian, and so on ______<br />[] Native Hawaiian<br />[] Guamanian or Chamorro<br />[] Samoan<br />[] Other Pacific Islander - print race, for example, Fijian, Tongan, and so on _______<br />[] Some other race - print race _______</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 1 race group
2 2 race groups
3 3
4 4
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 the person's number of major race groups.
Universe
Puerto Rico 2015: All persons

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Concept
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