DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08101.v1
title: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Public Use Microdata Sample (A Sample): 5-Percent Sample
title: Version 1

description: The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) contain person- and household-level information from the "long-form" questionnaires distributed to a sample of the population enumerated in the 1980 Census. This data collection, containing 5-percent data, identifies every state, county groups, and most individual counties with 100,000 or more inhabitants (350 in all). In many cases, individual cities or groups of places with 100,000 or more inhabitants are also identified. Household-level variables include housing tenure, year structure was built, number and types of rooms in dwelling, plumbing facilities, heating equipment, taxes and mortgage costs, number of children, and household and family income. The person record contains demographic items such as sex, age, marital status, race, Spanish origin, income, occupation, transportation to work, and education.
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 
 DS77: County Group Equivalency File--Geographic Area Identification for Samples A and B 
 DS78: County Group Equivalency File--Print File, "A" Sample County Groups 
 DS79: County Group Equivalency File--Print File, "B" Sample County Groups 
 DS80: Data Dictionary for Parts 1-56
description: Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States] Series
description: The household and person records in each hierarchical data file have logical record lengths of 193 characters, but the number of records varies with each file.
The record layout for Part 72, Puerto Rico, is different from the state datasets. Refer to the supplemental documentation for this part.
The codebook is available in hardcopy form only, while the Puerto Rico supplemental documentation is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.
description: All persons and housing units in the United States and Puerto Rico.
description: For this data collection, the full 1980 Census sample that received the "long-form" questionnaire (19.4 percent of all households) was sampled again through a stratified systematic selection procedure with probability proportional to a measure of size. This 5-percent sample, i.e., 5 households for every 100 households in the nation, includes over one-fourth of the households that received the long-form questionnaire.