PUMS 2000 Samples
STIPULATIONS FOR USE: Open Access to SodaPop.
DESCRIPTION: PUMS files have state-level Census 2000 data containing individual records of the characteristics for a 1 percent sample and 5 percent sample of people and housing units. The PUMS files contain geographic units called super-Public Use Microdata Areas (super-PUMAs), a new geographic entity for Census 2000. The state files, which may contain one or more super-PUMAs, include geographic equivalency files that show the relationship between the super-PUMA and standard Census 2000 geographic concepts (e.g., counties, etc.). The super-PUMAs are made up of a Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) or group of contiguous PUMAs (each PUMA must have a minimum of 100,000 population). PUMAs are only identified on the 5-percent files and not on the 1-percent files.
ORIGINATING AGENCY / PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S): United States Census Bureau
RELATED WEB SITES:
United States Census Bureau Census 2000 Gateway
Census Bureau 1% PUMS and 5% PUMS pages
American Community Survey (ACS) PUMS 2000-2002 Page
Census Bureau PUMS Web Page
CIESIN PUMS Web Page
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series Web Site
PUMS 2000 files on SodaPop
The PUMS data has been reshaped from its original hierarchical format into a rectangular person-level file with household data attached to each person.In order to uniquely identify a person in the PUMS, you need three variables: STATE, SERIALNO, and PNUM. WARNING: PNUM is not unique in the 1% sample.
DATA DISSEMINATED BY: United States Census Bureau
