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Census 1970
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Census 1970
Documentation
Census 1970
1970 Census Users' Guide - Part I
Cover Images
Corrections
Part I
Part II
Preface
Population and Housing Censuses: 1790 To 1970
Why a Census
National Growth Leads to Permanent Census Bureau
Footnotes
Change to Meet New National Requirements
Recent Developments: The Computer Revolution
Recent Developments the Trend toward the Bureau as Service Agency
Bureau Response 1960
1970: The Bureau Becomes Data Deliverer as Well as Fact Finder
More data
Greater areal detail and flexibility
Several media used for data delivery
References
The 1970 Census: Finding the Facts
Which Facts
1970 Population questions [All]
1970 Census of Puerto Rico
Figure 1. 1970 Census Questionnaire
Sampling
Geographic Preparation
Collecting the Data
Processing the Data
References
The 1970 Census: Data Products and Data Delivery
The Concept of the Data Delivery System
Data Products and Services
General Tabulations and Services
Printed reports
1970 Population Census Reports
1970 Housing Census Reports
1970 Population-Housing Census Joint Report
Summary tapes
Footnotes
Microform
Other eye readable copy
Geographic products
Special Tabulations
Census Use Programs and Materials
The Census Use Study
Information resources for users of unpublished products
Small-Area Data Notes
Data Access Descriptions
Summary Tape User Memoranda
Summary Tape Information Library Memoranda
1970 Census User Conferences
Directory of Census Procedures and Tabulation Units for Small Areas
Technical materials needed to use census products
Census Users Dictionary
Glossary of Technical Terms and Abbreviations
Technical Documentation
Format and Technical Information about Tape Data Files on IBM-Compatible Tapes
Summary Tape Test Reels
DAULLIST
Guides to Federal Statistics
Data Delivery Facilities
Data delivery facilities at the Census Bureau
Data facilities outside the Federal Government
Dimensions of Census Data Use
Introduction
Dimension I - General Census Data Uses
Benchmark
Sampling frame
Target definition
Program planning
Dimension II - Functional Areas of Use
Education
Urban Planning and Development
Health and Welfare
Market Research
Dimension III - Community Characteristics
Conclusion
Footnotes
Census Users' Dictionary
Introduction
Census Bureau Statistical Programs
Census Procedures: Implications for Concept Definitions
Implications for Census Data Users
Using the Dictionary
Part I. Geographic Areas (Concepts 1 through 49)
Introduction
Geographic Areas and Concepts
States
Quasi-State or Pseudo-State
Geographic division
Region
State Economic Areas (SEA's)
Economic Sub-Regions (ESR's)
Counties
Congressional districts
School districts
Special purpose districts
Foreign trade statistical areas
Ward
Municipalities and townships
Minor Civil Divisions (MCD's)
Census County Divisions (CCD)
Place (Cities and other incorporated and unincorporated places)
Urban-rural areas (population)
Urbanized areas (UA)
Standard Consolidated Areas (SCA's)
Universal Area Code (UAC)
Major Retail Center (MRC)
Central Business District (CBD)
Census tract
Standard Location Area (SLA)
City block
Enumeration Districts (ED's)
Address Register
Address Coding Guide (ACG)
Mail census areas (mail-out/mail-back areas)
Non-mail areas (conventional enumeration areas)
Census listing book
Master Reference File (MRF)
Dual Independent Map Encoding (DIME)
ZIP Code areas
Summary and record-type codes
Part II. Population Census Concepts (Concepts 50 through 149)
Introduction
Population and density
Total population
Population Density
Place of residence at time of census
Urban-rural residence
Metropolitan residence
Place of residence five years ago
Mobility status
Year moved into present house
Age and sex
Age
Sex
Race
Race
Nativity, parentage, ethnic background
Nativity
Parentage
Foreign stock
Spanish-American population
Citizenship
Year of immigration
Mother tongue
Education
Enrollment status
Level and year or grade of school in which enrolled
Type of school in which enrolled
Years of school completed
Vocational training
Marital status and history
Marital status
Times married
Age at first marriage
Termination of first marriage
Fertility
Children ever born
Fertility ratio
Living arrangements
Household/group quarters membership
Household relationship
Family structure
Family/unrelated individual status
Family Type (family head)
Married couples
Children
Military status and history
Military status
Veteran status and history
Work patterns: labor force and employment concepts
Labor force status
Employment status
Unemployment rate
Hours worked
Weeks worked
Year last worked
Disability status
Duration of disability
Work patterns: occupation, industry, and related concepts
Occupation
1960 Major Occupation Groups
Industry
Class of worker
Activity five years ago
Occupation five years ago
Industry five years ago
Class of worker five years ago
Work patterns: place of work and means of transportation to work
Place of work
Means of transportation to work
Financial well being income and poverty concepts
Total income
Poverty level
Income deficit
Poverty areas
Part Ill. Housing Census Concepts (Concepts 150 through 250)
Introduction
Census questions from which the concept is derived
Concept categories carried on basic records, but not on summary tapes
The universe to which the concept applies
The census(es) to which the concept applies (year)
Whether related questions are complete count or sample
Instructions for respondents in mail census areas
Editing and allocation procedures
Housing inventory
Total housing units (housing inventory)
Living arrangements: Definition of a housing unit
Living quarters
Access (entrance to unit)
Kitchen facilities
Location of housing units
Urban-rural location
Metropolitan location
Occupancy status
Occupancy status
Occupancy characteristics of occupied housing units
Population in units
Persons per room
Characteristics of persons in occupied housing units
Tenure
Second Homes
Vacancy characteristics of vacant units
Vacancy status
Vacancy rates
Duration of vacancy
Financial characteristics of housing units
Rent
Contract rent
Ratios of income to value and rent
Structural characteristics
Units in structure (type of structure)
Type of foundation
Number of stories in structure
Elevator in structure
Year structure built
Rooms in unit
Substandard housing
Substandard housing
Plumbing characteristics
Plumbing facilities
Toilet facilities
Bathing facilities
Bath rooms
Source of water
Sewage disposal
Heating equipment and fuels
Heating equipment
Heating fuel
Cooking fuel
Water heating fuel
Household equipment*
Clothes washing machine
Clothes dryer
Home food freezer
Dishwasher
Telephone available
Automobiles available
Air conditioning
Television sets
Radio sets
Components of Inventory Change (CINCH) Survey
Description of the 1970 Survey
Components of Inventory Change Concepts
Concepts Unique to CINCH
The components of change
Condition
Recent movers
1970 Residential Finance Program
Residential finance concepts
Comparison of Printed Reports and Summary Tapes
1970 Population Census Data
1970 Housing Census Data1970 Housing Census Data
Glossary of Technical Terms and Abbreviations
ACG (Address Coding Guide)
Address Register
Address Serial Number (ASN)
ADMATCH (Address Matching System)
Advance reports
Allocation
Alphanumeric
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
ASN
Base maps
Basic record
Basic Record Tape (BRT)
BCD (Binary Coded Decimal)
Binary
Bit (Binary Digit)
Block
Block length
Breaker sheets
BRT
CBD (Central Business District)
CCC (Central County Code)
CCD (Census County Division)
Cell
Census
Census Use Study
Central Users' Service
Centroid
Channel
Character
Character set
CINCH (Components of Inventory Change)
COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)
Coding
Compilations
Complete-count
Component summaries
Computer graphics
Confidentiality
Conversion
Coordinates
Core
Count, First--Sixth
CPI (Characters Per Inch)
CPS (Current Population Survey)
CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)
Cross-tabulations
CUD (Census Users Dictionary)
DAD (Data Access Descriptions)
Data
Data item
Data processing
DAUL (Data Access and Use Laboratory)
DAULLIST
Deck
Density
Diary
Diary review
Digitizer
DIME (Dual Independent Map Encoding)
DO (District Offices)
DOS (Disk Operating System)
Dump
EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)
ED (Enumeration District)
EDP (Electronic Data Processing)
Editing
Enumeration
ESR (Economic Subregion)
Field
File
File maintenance
FIPSPUB (Federal Information P recessing Standards Publication)
Flag
Format
FORTRAN (Formula Translation)
FOSDIC (Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computer)
GBF (Geographic Base File)
General tabulations
Geospace plotter
GICS (Geographic Identification Code Scheme)
GQ (Grow Quarters)
GRIDS
Hard copy
Hardware
Header record (or label)
Hexadecimal
HSF (High Speed Printer)
HU (Housing Unit)
ICR (Individual Census Report)
Input data
Interblock spacing
List
Listing books
Logical record
Logical record size
Long form
Magnetic tape
Mail-out/mail-back
Matching study
Matrix
MCD (Minor Civil Division)
MEDList (Master Enumeration District List)
Microfiche
Microfilm
MMS (Metropolitan Map Series)
MRC (Major Retail Center)
MRF (Master Reference File)
MSP (Married, Spouse Present)
Node
Nonmail area (Conventional enumeration area)
Numeric code
Octal
Outer line
Output data
Padding
Parity
Pass
Pen plotter
Peripheral devices
Physical record
Preliminary Reports
Printout
Program
programming language
Public Use Sample
Q.C. (Quality Control)
Recode
Record layout
Recording block
Recording density
Releasability analysis
Run
SADNotes (Small-Area Data Notes)
Sample data
Sample survey
SC.4411
SCA (Standard Consolidated Area)
Schedule
SCRIS (Southern California Regional Information Study.)
SEA (State Economic Area)
Self-enumeration
Sentinel
Short form
SIC (Standard Industrial Classification)
SLA (Standard Location Area)
SLEUTH (Symbolic Language for the Univac 1107 Thin Film Computer)
SMSA (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Software
Special areas
Special project
Special tabulations
Stratification
Stripping
STUM (Summary Tape User Memoranda)
Sub-block
Summary tape
Summary Tape Processing Center
Suppression
TA (Tracted Area)
Table generator
Tabulations
Tally
Tape drive
Tape mark
Technical Documentation (TD)
Terminal
Time sharing
Track
Trailer record (or label)
UA (Urbanized Area)
UAC (Universal Area Code)
Volume label
Weighting
Word
XS-3 (Excess-three Code)
Abbreviations for Selected United States Government Agencies, Offices, and Other Units
Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; 1970 Census Users’ Guide; U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1970.
1970 Census Users' Guide - Part II
Cover Images
Introduction
Applicability of conventions
Method of establishment
Conventions for Data Records
Block and sub-block
Logical record
Fields
Geographic identification
Data fields
Padding
Disclosure suppression indication
Types of suppression on tape
Suppression indicators on the documentation
Example 2. Identification of Levels of Stratification
Conventions for Header and Trailer Labels on Magnetic Tape
File Label Formats
Footnotes:
Fourth Count Population Summary Tape
Footnote:
Footnotes:
Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; 1970 Census Users’ Guide; U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1970.
