DOI: 10.3886/icpsr06219
title: Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States]: Public Use Microdata Sample: 3-Percent Elderly Sample
title: Archival Version

description: These data from the 1990 Census comprise a sample of households with at least one person 60 years and older, plus a sample of persons 60 years and older in group quarters. The data are grouped into housing variables and person variables. Housing variables include area type, state and area of residence, farm/nonfarm status, type of structure, year structure was built, vacancy and boarded-up status, number of rooms and bedrooms, presence or absence of a telephone, presence or absence of complete kitchen and plumbing facilities, type of sewage facilities, type of water source, type of heating fuel used, property value, tenure, year moved into house/apartment, type of household/family, type of group quarters, household language, number of persons in the household, number of persons and workers in the family, status of mortgage, second mortgage, and home equity loan, number of vehicles available, household income, sales of agricultural products, payments for rent, mortgage and property tax, condominium fees, mobile home costs, and cost of electricity, water, heating fuel, and flood/fire/hazard insurance. Person variables cover age, sex, relationship to householder, educational attainment, school enrollment, race, Hispanic origin, ancestry, language spoken at home, citizenship, place of birth, year of immigration, place of residence in 1985, marital status, number of children ever born, military service, mobility and personal care limitation, work limitation status, employment status, occupation, industry, class of worker, hours worked last week, weeks worked in 1989, usual hours worked per week, temporary absence from work, place of work, time of departure for work, travel time to work, means of transportation to work, total earnings, total income, wages and salary income, farm and nonfarm self-employment income, Social Security income, public assistance income, retirement income, and rent, dividends, and net rental income.
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: 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 
 DS84: Geographic Equivalency File for the Entire Nation 
 DS85: Planning and Service Area (PSA) Codes for the Entire Nation
description: Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States] Series
description: (1) Parts 1 through 80 are revised files released by the Census Bureau in 1994. (2) The data are organized in a two-level hierarchy comprising housing records and person records. Housing records contain 114 variables. Person records have 125 variables. Each occupied housing unit is represented by a single housing record followed by one or more person records, one for each person in the household. Vacant housing units are represented by a single housing record without any attendant person records. Each person residing in group quarters is represented by a single housing record followed by a single person record. (3) Appendix G of the codebook (PUMS maps) is available only in hardcopy form upon request from ICPSR. (4) Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) are documented in Part 84. Planning and Service Areas (PSAs) are documented in Part 85.
description: All households with at least one person 60 years and older, plus all persons 60 and older residing in group quarters.
description: Stratified random sample.