United States Census of 1850 - IPUMS Subset

United States, 1850

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Reference ID

USA_1850_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS

Producer(s)

Department of the Interior, IPUMS

Collection(s)

Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)

Metadata

DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Aug 01, 2025

Last modified

Aug 01, 2025

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Size of place (US1850A_SIZEPL)

Data file: USA1850_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete

Start: 153

End: 154

Width: 2

Range: -

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

<svar a="all" v=" US50A014 US50A015 US50A016 US50A017 US50A018 US50A019 US50A020 US50A021 US50A022 US50A023 US50A024 US50A025 US50A026 US50A027 US50A028 US50A029 US50A030 US50A031 US50A032 US50A033 US50A050 US50A051">Free inhabitants in _________, in the County of ________, State of _________, enumerated by me, on the _____ day of ___________, 1850.<br /></svar>

Categories

Value	Category
01	Under 1,000 or unincorporated
02	1,000-2,499
03	2,500-3,999
04	4,000-4,999
05	5,000-9,999
06	10,000-24,999
07	25,000-49,999
08	50,000-74,999
09	75,000-99,999
10	100,000-199,999
50	500,000-599,999

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 size of the place where the household was enumerated.

Universe

United States 1850 (100%): All households

concept

Concept

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