Census of population and housing, 1970 [United States]
Subtitle: persons in institutions and other group quarters by age, sex, race, and Spanish origin
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census
Series: ICPSR -- 8342; ICPSR (Series) -- 8342
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Housing; Statistics; Census, 1970; Population
Other titles: Persons in institutions and other group quarters by age, sex, race, and Spanish origin.
Description: This summary statistics file was compiled by the Bureau of the Census. The data are a complete or 100% count of all persons in group quarters by sex and single years of age up to 74 with a category for 75 and over as well as a total. The distribution is repeated for 18 race/Hispanic groups. Group quarters population includes persons in institutional group quarters such as homes, schools, hospitals, or wards for the physically and mentally handicapped, hospitals or wards for mental, tubercular, or chronically ill patients, homes for unwed mothers, nursing, convalescent, and rest homes for the aged and dependent, orphanages, and correctional institutions. Noninstitutional group quarters include rooming and boarding houses, general hospitals, including nurses' and interns' dormitories, college student dormitories, religious group quarters, and similar housing. Data are available for all counties and independent cities.
Notes: Holding archive: National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network

ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1970.

United States Bureau of the Census.

United States.

60,159 records; with a logical record length of 2,040 characters.