1850 Public Use Microdata Sample
Variable Descriptions
User's Guide and Technical Documentation
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H49-50 GQFUND - Group Quarters Funding Code Indicates the source of support or institutional affiliation where that could be determined . GQCODE, this variable follows the system developed for the IPUMS .
Like
For more information, see
the section on "Institutions," above . H51 FARM - Farm Identifies farms as households in which any member reported their occupation as farmer . H52 SAMPUNIT - Sample Unit Identifies the sampling rule used for each case .
See the "Sample Design" section above.
Cases may
be taken as dwellings, households, related groups, or individuals. Category 1 identifies households where the entire dwelling is included in the sample ; if the household is located in a multi-household dwelling, the other households in the dwelling will appear in the same record . households within large multi-household dwellings.
Category 2 identifies
Category 3 identifies households taken in
districts where dwelling information was missing. Categories 4 and 5 identify related groups in group quarters and individuals in group quarters ; these cases should be omitted for analysis of households or household characteristics. The final SAMPUNIT category, "Fragment," denotes parts of households that were initially missed by marshals and later entered on the census forms at the end of the enumeration district . It was not feasible to locate the correct household to which these people belonged .
To ensure that each
enumerated individual had a 1-in-100 chance of inclusion in the sample, we treated these cases as if they were residents of group quarters . Thus, fragments with no obviously related adjacent kin were included only if the sample point fell on their line ; fragments consisting of a group of kin were included only if the sample line fell on the first individual in the group . H53 HHSEQ - Sequence of Household in Dwelling Sequence number of each household in the dwelling .
This variable is always equal to 1 except when
the sample includes more than one household from a dwelling (that is, for multi-household dwellings sampled under rule 1) .
H54-57 NLTMPERHH - Number of Person Records in Household Number of person records following the household record .
For cases sampled under rules 1 or 2,
this variable is equivalent to HHSIZE ; otherwise, it is a machine count of the number of person records in the sample unit taken. H58-61 REEL - Microfilm Reel Number
. ,.
Identifies the microfilm reel from which the case was taken, using the Census Bureau's numbering system for reels. H62-64 PAGENO - Microfilm Page Number These page numbers were stamped on the census pages before microfilming . This can be useful in locating cases included in the 1850 Public Use Microdata Sample on the original schedules.