Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States] : - Modified Age/Race, Sex, and Hispanic Origin (MARS) State and County File / United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 9878.

ICPSR ; 9878

Census of Population and Housing, 1990 [United States] Series ; 9878

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing--United States--Statistics.

Housing.

United States.

United States--Census, 1990.

United States--Population--Statistics.

Population.

Genre:

Statistics.

Academic theses.

Census data.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The MARS file contains modified race and age data based on the 1990 Census. Both race and age are tabulated by sex and Hispanic origin for several layers of geography. The race data were modified to make reporting categories comparable to those used by state and local agencies. The 1990 Census included 9,804,847 persons who checked the ''other race'' category and were therefore not included in one of the 15 racial categories listed on the Census form. ''Other race'' is usually not an acceptable reporting category for state and local agencies. Therefore, the Census Bureau assigned each ''other race'' person to the specified race reported by another person geographically close with an identical response to the Hispanic-origin question. Hispanic origin was taken into account because over 95 percent of the ''other race'' persons were of Hispanic origin. (Hispanic-origin persons may be of any race.) The assignment of race to Hispanic-origin persons did not affect the Hispanic-origin category that they checked (i.e, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, etc.). Age data were modified because respondents tended to report age as of the date they completed the 1990 questionnaire, instead of age as of the April 1, 1990 Census date. In addition, there may have been a tendency for respondents to round up their age if they were close to having a birthday. Age data for individuals in households were modified by adjusting the reported birth-year data by race and sex for each of the 1990 Census's 449 district offices to correspond with the national level quarterly distribution of births available from the National Center for Health Statistics. The data for persons in group quarters were adjusted similarly, but on a state basis. The age adjustment affects approximately 100 million people. In this file their adjusted age is one year different from that reported in the... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09878

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61164606

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.