DOI: 10.3886/icpsr07854
title: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: P.L. 94-171 Population Counts
title: Archival Version

description: These data files provide population counts for racial and ethnic groups living in all the jurisdictions of the states in the United States in 1980. These data were produced as part of the Census Bureau's commitment under Public Law 94-171 to aid states' legislatures in the redistricting process. Public Law 171 of the 94th Congress was passed in 1975 to help facilitate the one-man-one-vote concept enunciated in 1963. It specifies procedures for conducting the decennial census for those states wishing to participate and makes improvements for reporting the findings as well. As a result of this law, the Census Bureau was authorized to prepare for each state a data file that contains population counts for racial and ethnic groups living in all the jurisdictions of the state. Each of these files contains summary statistics for seven population groups/types: Whites, Blacks, American Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts, Asians and Pacific Islanders, Spanish-Hispanics, total population, and population of other races. Each record in each of the files is a type of census reporting area arranged in hierarchical order. There are 51 data files, one for each of the states plus one for Washington, DC. Each of the files has the same format of 156-character logical records with characters 1-100 containing identification data and the alphabetic name of the record and characters 101-156 containing the data for the seven population groups/types. Data are provided for states or state equivalent, counties or county equivalent, minor civil divisions (MCDs) or census county divisions (CCDs), incorporated places, election precincts or their equivalent (if any), census tracts or block numbering areas (BNAs) (if any), and block groups and blocks in blocked areas, or enumeration districts in nonblock-numbered areas. The Census Bureau has produced a file, User Note No.#2 (Part 90), to accompany the PL94-171 series that documents a problem encountered in all but nine states in the series. The nine states NOT affected are Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The file contains a list of places split across counties or MCD/CCDs that have two partial records but do not have a "part" indicator on either record. Because of the omission of this part indicator, it is not possible to connect the two parts of the same record (place) for analysis purposes without the User Note No.#2 that allows researchers to identify these places and use the data for them more easily. There are 5,971 records (split places) in the file, each with a logical record length of 48.
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Alabama 
 DS2: Alaska 
 DS4: Arizona 
 DS5: Arkansas 
 DS6: California 
 DS8: Colorado 
 DS9: Connecticut 
 DS10: Delaware 
 DS11: District of Columbia 
 DS12: Florida 
 DS13: Georgia 
 DS15: Hawaii 
 DS16: Part 16 Idaho 
 DS17: Illinois 
 DS18: Indiana 
 DS19: Iowa 
 DS20: Kansas 
 DS21: Kentucky 
 DS22: Louisiana 
 DS23: Maine 
 DS24: Maryland 
 DS25: Massachusetts 
 DS26: Michigan 
 DS27: Minnesota 
 DS28: Mississippi 
 DS29: Missouri 
 DS30: Montana 
 DS31: Nebraska 
 DS32: Nevada 
 DS33: New Hampshire 
 DS34: New Jersey 
 DS35: New Mexico 
 DS36: New York 
 DS37: North Carolina 
 DS38: North Dakota 
 DS39: Ohio 
 DS40: Oklahoma 
 DS41: Oregon 
 DS42: Pennsylvania 
 DS44: Rhode Island 
 DS45: South Carolina 
 DS46: South Dakota 
 DS47: Tennessee 
 DS48: Texas 
 DS49: Utah 
 DS50: Vermont 
 DS51: Virginia 
 DS53: Washington 
 DS54: West Virginia 
 DS55: Wisconsin 
 DS56: Wyoming
description: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States] Series
description: All persons and housing units belonging to all population groups in the United States in 1980.