DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04204.v2
title: Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 5-Percent Public Use Microdata Sample: Elderly Households Extract
title: Version 2

description: This is a special extract of the 2000 Census 5-Percent
Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) created by the National Archive of
Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). The file combines the individual
5-percent state files for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and
Puerto Rico as released by the United States Census Bureau into a
single analysis file. The file contains information on all households
that contain at least one person aged 65 years or more in residence as
of the 2000 Census enumeration. The file contains individual records
on all persons aged 65 and older living in households as well as
individual records for all other members residing in each of these
households. Consequently, this file can be used to examine both the
characteristics of the elderly in the United States as well as the
characteristics of individuals who co-reside with persons aged 65 and
older as of the year 2000. All household variables from the
household-specific "Household record" of the 2000 PUMS are appended to
the end of each individual level record. This file is not a special
product of the Census Bureau and is not a resample of the PUMS data
specific to the elderly population. While it is comparable to the 1990
release CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1990: [UNITED STATES]:
PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE: 3-PERCENT ELDERLY SAMPLE (ICPSR 6219),
the sampling procedures and weights for the 2000 file reflect the
methodology that applies to the 5-percent PUMS release CENSUS OF
POPULATION AND HOUSING, 2000 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA
SAMPLE: 5-PERCENT SAMPLE (ICPSR 13568). 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. 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.
description: hweight, pweight
description: A stratified sample of the population that was created by
 subsampling the full census sample (approximately 15.8 percent of all
housing units) that received census long-form questionnaires.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: 5-Percent Public Use Microdata Sample: Elderly Households Extract
description: All persons and housing units in the United States.
description: self-enumerated questionnaireBoth individual and household level weights are
included with the file and caution needs to be employed when using
these weights so the user is directed to the technical documentation
provided by the Census Bureau and included with this release.