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2015 American Community Survey - IPUMS Subset

United States, 2011 - 2015
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Reference ID
USA_2015_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
Producer(s)
United States 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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Units in structure (US2015A_UNITSSTR)

Data file: USA2015_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 279
End: 280
Width: 2
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">Housing</span>
<br />Please answer the following questions about the house, apartment, or mobile home at the address on the mailing label.</p>

<p>1. Which best describes this building? Include all apartments, flats, etc., even if vacant</p>
<div class="i1">[] A mobile home<br />[] A one-family house detached from any other house<br />[] A one-family house attached to one or more houses<br />[] A building with 2 apartments<br />[] A building with 3 or 4 apartments<br />[] A building with 5 to 9 apartments<br />[] A building with 10 to 19 apartments<br />[] A building with 20 to 49 apartments<br />[] A building with 50 or more apartments<br />[] Boat, RV, van, etc.</div>
Categories
Value Category
00 NIU (not in universe)
01 Mobile home or trailer
02 Boat, tent, van, other
03 1-family house, detached
04 1-family house, attached
05 2-family building
06 3-4 family building
07 5-9 family building
08 10-19 family building
09 20-49 family building
10 50+ family building
98 1960s cases to be allocated
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 units in structure.
Universe
United States 2015: Private households [discrepancies: none]

concept

Concept
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