Year-Round Housing Units: - T142_001 - Air Conditioning - Summary Tape File 3 (STF3) - Survey Census 1980

Data Dictionary:

Census 1980

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Survey: Census 1980

Data Source:

U.S. Census Bureau

Data set: Summary Tape File 3 (STF3)

Table:

T142. Air Conditioning [5]

Universe: Year-Round Housing Units

Variable Details

T142.

Air Conditioning

Universe: Year-Round Housing Units

T142_001Year-Round Housing Units:

Percent base:

None - percentages not computed (variable is table universe)

Aggregation method:

Addition

Formula used to compute this variable:

#ReturnType oretval = new #ReturnType(); oretval = ORG_STF3:T120001 + ORG_STF3:T120002 + ORG_STF3:T120003 + ORG_STF3:T120004; return oretval;

Variables used in the formula:
ORG_STF3:T120001	Year-Round Housing Units: None
ORG_STF3:T120002	Year-Round Housing Units: Central system
ORG_STF3:T120003	Year-Round Housing Units: 1 individual room unit
ORG_STF3:T120004	Year-Round Housing Units: 2 or more individual room units

Relevant Documentation:

Excerpt from:	Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; Census of Population and Housing, 1980: Summary Tape File 3 [machine-readable data file] / conducted By the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Washington: Bureau of the Census [producer and distributor], 1982.
	Summary Tape File 3 -> Summary Tape File 3 -- Part II -> Glossary -> Air Conditioning

Air Conditioning

Presence of equipment with a refrigeration unit to cool air in occupied and vacant housing units. Evaporative coolers and fans or blowers not connected to a refrigerating apparatus are excluded, but refrigerating heat pumps are included. This item was asked on a sample basis.

Central system

A central installation designed to deliver cooled air to a number of rooms in a house or apartment. The system may have individual room controls. In an apartment building, a central system may coo1 all apartments in the building, each apartment may have its own central system, or there may be several systems, each providing central air conditioning for a group of apartments.

Individual room unit

An individual air conditioner which is installed in a window or an outside wall, and is generally intended to deliver cooled air to the room in which it is located, although it may sometimes be used to cool more than one room.

None

No air conditioning present.

Historical comparability

Similar data have been collected since 1960.