DOI: 10.3886/icpsr13568.v1
title: Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: Public Use Microdata Sample: 5-Percent Sample
title: Version 1

description: These Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files contain
 records representing a 5-percent sample of the occupied and vacant
 housing units in the United States and the people in the occupied
 units. People living in group quarters also are included. The files
 provide individual weights for persons and housing units, which when
 applied to the individual records, expand the sample to the relevant
 totals. Some of the items on the housing record are acreage,
 agricultural sales, allocation flags for housing items, bedrooms,
 condominium fee, contract rent, cost of utilities, family income in
 1999, family, subfamily, and relationship recodes, farm residence,
 fire, hazard, and flood insurance, fuels used, gross rent, heating
 fuel, household income in 1999, household type, housing unit weight,
 kitchen facilities, linguistic isolation, meals included in rent,
 mobile home costs, mortgage payment, mortgage status, plumbing
 facilities, presence and age of own children, presence of subfamilies
 in household, real estate taxes, number of rooms, selected monthly
 owner costs, size of building (units in structure), state code,
 telephone service, tenure, vacancy status, value (of housing unit),
 vehicles available, year householder moved into unit, and year
 structure built. Some of the items on the person record are ability to
 speak English, age, allocation flags for population items, ancestry,
 citizenship, class of worker, disability status, earnings in 1999,
 educational attainment, grandparents as caregivers, Hispanic origin,
 hours worked, income in 1999 by type, industry, language spoken at
 home, marital status, means of transportation to work, migration
 Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA), migration state, mobility status,
 veteran period of service, years of military service, occupation,
 persons weight, personal care limitation, place of birth, place of
 work PUMA, place of work state, poverty status in 1999, race,
 relationship, school enrollment and type of school, time of departure
 for work, travel time to work, vehicle occupancy, weeks worked in
 1999, work limitation status, work status in 1999, and year of
 entry. The Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files contain geographic
 units known as Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) and super-Public Use
 Microdata Areas (super-PUMAs). To maintain the confidentiality of the
 PUMS data, minimum population thresholds are set for PUMAs and
 super-PUMAs. For the 1-percent state-level files, the super-PUMAs
 contain a minimum population of 400,000 and are composed of a PUMA or
 a group of contiguous PUMAs delineated on the 5-percent state-level
 PUMS files. Super-PUMAs are a new geographic entity for Census
 2000. The 5-percent state-level files contain PUMAs, each having a
 minimum population of 100,000, and corresponding super-PUMA
 codes. Each state is separately identified and may be comprised of one
 or more super-PUMAs or PUMAs. Large metropolitan areas may be
 subdivided into super-PUMAs and PUMAs. PUMAs and super-PUMAs do not
 cross state lines. Super-PUMAs and PUMAs also are defined for place of
residence on April 1, 1995, and place of work.
description: A stratified sample of the population, which was created
 by subsampling the full census sample (approximately 15.8 percent of 
all housing units) that received census long-form questionnaires.
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
DS72: Puerto Rico
description: All persons and housing units in the United States.
description: (1) There are two files per state: the data file and
 the PUMS Equivalency file. The data file is hierarchical. The housing
 record has a record length of 316 with 106 variables and the person
 record has a record length of 266 with 155 variables. The Equivalency
 files list the geographic components (counties or MCDs, places, tracts
 where available) and their assigned PUMA and super-PUMA codes. (2) The
 codebook is provided by the principal investigator as a Portable
 Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe
 Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software,
 such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy
of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.