1 or more vehicles available - HCT033B003 - Vehicles Available (Black Alone Householder) - Summary File 3 (SF3) - Survey Census 2000

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Survey: Census 2000

Data Source:

U.S. Census Bureau

Data set: Summary File 3 (SF3)

Table:

HCT33B. Vehicles Available (Black Alone Householder) [3]

Universe: Occupied housing units with a householder who is Black or African American alone

Variable Details

HCT33B.	Vehicles Available (Black Alone Householder)
	Universe: Occupied housing units with a householder who is Black or African American alone
	HCT033B001Occupied housing units with a householder who is Black or African American alone HCT033B003 1 or more vehicles available Percent base: Occupied housing units with a householder who is Black or African American alone (SF3:HCT033B001) Aggregation method: Addition

Relevant Documentation:

Excerpt from:	Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Technical Documentation, 2002.
	Summary File 3 Technical Documentation -> Appendix B. Definitons of Subject Characteristics -> Housing Characteristics -> Vehicles Available

Vehicles Available

The data on vehicles available were obtained from answers to long-form questionnaire Item 43, which was asked on a sample basis at occupied housing units. These data show the number of passenger cars, vans, and pickup or panel trucks of 1-ton capacity or less kept at home and available for the use of household members. Vehicles rented or leased for 1 month or more, company vehicles, and police and government vehicles are included if kept at home and used for nonbusiness purposes. Dismantled or immobile vehicles are excluded. Vehicles kept at home but used only for business purposes also are excluded.

Aggregate vehicles available

To calculate aggregate vehicles available, a value of "7" is assigned to vehicles available for occupied units falling within the terminal category, "6 or more." (For more information on aggregates, see "Derived Measures".)

Vehicles per household (Mean vehicles available)

Vehicles per household is computed by dividing aggregate vehicles available by the number of occupied housing units. Vehicles per household is rounded to the nearest tenth. (For more information on means, see Derived Measures.)

Limitation of the data

The statistics do not measure the number of vehicles privately owned or the number of households owning vehicles.

Comparability

Data on automobiles available were collected from 1960 to 1980. In 1980, a separate question also was asked on the number of trucks and vans. The data on automobiles and trucks and vans were presented separately and also as a combined vehicles-available tabulation. The 1990 and Census 2000 data are comparable to the 1980 vehicles-available tabulations. In 1990, the terminal category identified "7 or more"; this was changed to "6 or more" in Census 2000.

Excerpt from:	Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; 2000 Census of Population and Housing, Summary File 3: Technical Documentation, 2002.
	Summary File 3 Technical Documentation -> Appendix B. Definitons of Subject Characteristics -> Population Characteristics -> Race -> Black or African American

Black or African American

A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicate their race as "Black, African Am., or Negro," or provide written entries such as African American, Afro-American, Kenyan, Nigerian, or Haitian.