Census of population and housing, 1980 [United States]

Description:

Public Law 171 of the 94th Congress was passed in 1975 to help facilitate the one-man-one-vote concept enunciated in 1963. It specifies procedures for conducting the decennial census for those states wishing to participate and makes improvements for reporting the findings as well. As a result of this law, the Census Bureau was authorized to prepare for each state a data file which contains population counts for racial and ethnic groups living in all the jurisdictions of the state. Data files prepared for this series have been obtained by ICPSR from the Census Bureau. Each of these files contains summary statistics for seven groups in the population: Total Population, Whites, Blacks, American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut, Asian and Pacific Islander, Other, and Spanish-Hispanic. Each record in each of the files is a type of census reporting area arranged in hierarchical order. There are 51 data files, one for each of the states plus one for Washington, D.C. Each of the files has the same format of 156-character logical records with characters 1-100 containing identification data and the alphabetic name of the record and characters 101-156 containing the data for the seven population groups.

subjects: Census, 1980,  Population,  Statistics

Places: United States