Census of Population and Housing, 1970: Public Use Sample, Puerto Rico, 20% Questionnaire, State File

<p>This study contains Public Use Microdata Samples taken from the 1970 Census of Population and Housing for Puerto Rico. The sample size is one-in-a-hundred, or one sample unit (household, vacant unit, or person in group quarters) for every one hundred such units in the population. The data include information such as occupancy and vacancy status of house, tenure, value of property, commercial use, year structure was built, number of rooms, availability of plumbing facilities, sewage disposal, bathtub or shower, water, electric lighting, telephone, and growing produce for home consumption. Data are also provided on household characteristics such as the number of persons aged 18 years and younger in the household, the presence of roomers, boarders, or lodgers, the presence of other nonrelative and of relative other than wife or child of head of household, the number of persons per room, the rent paid for unit, and the number of persons with Spanish surnames. Other demographic variables provide information on age, marital status, place of birth, state of birth, Puerto Rican heritage, English fluency, citizenship, education, occupation, employment status, size of family, farm earnings, and family income. Although Puerto Rico is not a State, the sample is so named because its geographic identification is comparable to that of the State samples for the U.S.</p>