DOI: 10.3886/icpsr07756
title: Census of Population and Housing, 1960 Public Use Sample: One-in-One-Hundred Sample
title: Archival Version

description: This collection contains individual-level and 1-percent national sample data from the 1960 Census of Population and Housing conducted by the Census Bureau. It consists of a representative sample of the records from the 1960 sample questionnaires. The data are stored in 30 separate files, containing in total over two million records, organized by state. Some files contain the sampled records of several states while other files contain all or part of the sample for a single state. There are two types of records stored in the data files: one for households and one for persons. Each household record is followed by a variable number of person records, one for each of the household members. Data items in this collection include the individual responses to the basic social, demographic, and economic questions asked of the population in the 1960 Census of Population and Housing. Data are provided on household characteristics and features such as the number of persons in household, number of rooms and bedrooms, and the availability of hot and cold piped water, flush toilet, bathtub or shower, sewage disposal, and plumbing facilities. Additional information is provided on tenure, gross rent, year the housing structure was built, and value and location of the structure, as well as the presence of air conditioners, radio, telephone, and television in the house, and ownership of an automobile. Other demographic variables provide information on age, sex, marital status, race, place of birth, nationality, education, occupation, employment status, income, and veteran status. The data files were obtained by ICPSR from the Center for Social Analysis, Columbia University.
description: One sample household for every 100 households, and persons in group quarters in the United States. Records have been sampled on a household-by-household basis so that the characteristics of family members may be interrelated and related to the characteristics of the housing unit.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: California (part three) DS2: Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii DS3: New York (part two) DS4: New York (part three) and Pennsylvania (part one) DS5: California (part one) DS6: California (part two) DS7: Michigan (part two) and Indiana DS8: Wisconsin DS9: Missouri DS10: Illinois (part two) DS11: Michigan (part one) DS12: North Carolina and South Carolina DS13: Florida (part one) and Georgia DS14: Florida (part two) and Virginia DS15: Alabama and Mississippi DS16: Pennsylvania (part two) DS17: Pennsylvania (part three) and New Jersey DS18: Iowa and Minnesota DS19: Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota DS20: Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia DS21: Tennessee and Kentucky DS22: Texas (part one) DS23: Massachusetts and Rhode Island DS24: Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine DS25: New York (part one) DS26: Texas (part two) and Oklahoma DS27: Louisiana and Arkansas DS28: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming DS29: Ohio (part one) DS30: Ohio (part two) and Illinois (part one)
description: About 600,000 households and group quarters segments, and about 1,800,000 persons in the United States.