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USERS GUIDE:
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                         A "USER'S GUIDE' TO
                MISSOURI STATE CENSUS DATA CENTER'S
              1990 SUMMARY TAPE FILE 3 EXTRACT REPORT

NOTE: Entries in columns where data appears in the actual reports
are the names of the variables on the corresponding data files
(STF903X data sets).
                        Variables          Explanation / notes
__________________________________________________________________
| <geoname>-------> |  <varies>         | Higher level qualifier
| GEOCODE --------> |  GEOCODE          | Geographic code(s).
| AREANAME--------> |  AREANAME         | Name of area summarized.
__________________________________________________________________

XP1. GENERAL POPULATION
 TOTAL PERSONS/PERCENT SAMPLED.. TOTPOP   PCTSMPLD 
     Sample estimate pop. % of population sampled. Users should be
     aware that all data in this report is  based on a sample
     (appx. 1-in-6 HH's) & is subject to sampling error.


  PER SQUARE MILE / LAND AREA...  POPPSQMI  LANDSQMI 
     Water area not included.


  FEMALES.......................  FEMALE    PCTFEMAL
     The variable PCTFEMAL is  not stored on the extract data sets
     but can be assigned as 100*FEMALE/TOTPOP.


  LIVING IN RURAL AREAS/ON FARMS  RURAL     ONFARMS  

     A "rural area" is by  defn. *not* in an urbanized area and
     *not* in a town of 2500 or more population. "Farm" definition
     is complex but includes sales of ag prods of at least $1000
     in 1989.


  LIVING IN FAMILIES/ALONE......  INFAMILY  ALONE

  LIVING IN GROUP QUARTERS......  GROUPQTR  PCTGQ    
     GQ pop includes people in shelters for the homeless and in
     street locations, as well as nursing homes, dorms, barracks,
     prisons...


XP2. PERSONS BY RACE/HISPANIC
     Race is based on self-identification.  I.E. whatever
     respondent checked on the survey.  Hispanic is not a race.

 WHITE..........................  WHITE     PCTWHITE  
 BLACK..........................  BLACK     PCTBLACK  
 ASIAN & PAC ISLANDER...........  ASIANPI   PCTASIAN  
 AMERICAN INDIAN, ESK., ALEUT...  AMINDIAN  PCTAMIND  
 HISPANIC (ANY RACE)............  HISPANIC  PCTHISP  



XP3. PERSONS BY AGE
   0-4 / PCT / CUM PCT..........  AGE0_4    PCT0_4    PCT0_4
   5-9..........................  AGE5_9    PCT5_9    PCT0_9
   10-13........................  AGE10_13  PCT10_13  PCT0_13
   14-17........................  AGE14_17  PCT14_17  PCT0_17
   18-24........................  AGE18_24  PCT18_24  PCT0_24
   25-34........................  AGE25_34  PCT25_34  PCT0_34
   35-44........................  AGE35_44  PCT35_44  PCT0_44
   45-54........................  AGE45_54  PCT45_54  PCT0_54
   55-59........................  AGE55_59  PCT55_59  PCT0_59
   60-64........................  AGE60_64  PCT60_64  PCT0_64
   65-74........................  AGE65_74  PCT65_74  PCT0_74
   75-84........................  AGE75_84  PCT75_84  PCT0_84
   85 AND OVER..................  AGE85_UP  PCT85_UP
   UNDER 20.....................  AGE0-19   PCT0_19
   20-39........................  AGE20_39  PCT20_39
   40-64........................  AGE40_64  PCT40_64
   65 AND OVER..................  AGE65_UP  PCT65_UP
   MEDIAN AGE...................  MEDAGE

XP4. HOUSEHOLDS BY SIZE
 TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS/AVERAGE SIZE..  TOTHHS    AVGHHSZ   
     AVGHHSZ=Total Persons in HHS/TOTHHS


 1 PERSON/1 PERSON OVER 65......  HHS1      HHS1OV65  
     HHS1OV65=Persons Age 65+  Living Alone in HHs.

 PCT HHS: 2 PERSONS / 3-4 / 5+..  PCTHHS2   PCTHHS3_  PCTHHS5_   
     PCTHHHS5_ is the % of all HHS with 5 or more people.


XP5. HOUSEHOLDS BY TYPE                              
     "Households"=Occupied Housing Units.

 FAMILIES/PCT OF ALL HOUSEHOLDS.  FAMILIES  PCTFAMHH 
     A family household has 2  or more people related by blood or
     marriage. Pct is of all households here.

  MARRIED COUPLES/PCT OF FAMLIES  MCFAMS    PCTMCFAM  
     This & next 3 pcts are based on total families

   WITH OWN CHILDREN < 18.......  MCWCHILD  PCTMCWCH  
  FEMALE HOUSEHOLDER (NO HUSB)..  FEMHEAD   PCTFEMHE
   WITH OWN CHILDREN............  FEMHEADC  PCTFEMHC
 NON-FAMILY HOUSEHOLDS..........  NONFHHS   PCTNFHHS  
     Pct of total households.

XP6. HOUSEHOLD INCOME 1989                            
     Census Bureau's defn of income differs from BEA  & others. 
     Question asked in '90 re previous  year's income.  In
     1989dollars, which are 1.676 times 1979 dollars (inflation
     factor)

 LESS THAN $10,000/PCT/CUM PCT..  HHI0_10   PHI0_10   PHI0_10
 $10,000 - $14,999..............  HHI10_15  PHI10_15  PHI0_15
 $15,000 - $24,999..............  HHI15_25  PHI15_25  PHI0_25
 $25,000 - $34,999..............  HHI25_35  PHI25_35  PHI0_35
     =% of HHS with income < $35,000
 $35,000 - $49,999..............  HHI35_50  PHI35_50  PHI0_50 
 $50,000 - $74,999..............  HHI50_75  PHI50_75  PHI0_75
 $75,000 - $99,000..............  HHI75_99  PHI75_99  PHI0_99
 $100,000 AND OVER..............  HHI100UP  PHI100UP
 MEDIAN/AVERAGE.................  MEDHHINC  AVGHHINC   
     Estimated from intervals. Max. income for averaging purposes
     was $999,999.

XP7. FAMILIES BY # WORKERS                            
     Counts of families with spec. # of wrkers and their avg.
     incomes.

 COUNT/AVG FAMILY INCOME 1989                        
 0 WORKERS......................  FAMWORK0  AVGFAMI0
 1 WORKER.......................  FAMWORK1  AVGFAMI1
 2 WORKERS......................  FAMWORK2  AVGFAMI2
 3+ WORKERS.....................  FAMWORK3  AVGFAMI3

XP8. OTHER INCOME MEASURES
 MEDIAN/AVG FAMILY INCOME.......  MEDFAMIN  AVGFAMIN  
     Household income includes households w. 1 person or unrelated 
     roommates. This causes HH income means & medians to generally
     be less than those for family households only.


 PER CAPITA INCOME/NON-GRP QTRS.  PCI       PCIHHS   
     PCIHHS is figured based only on the persons-in-household
     basis, i.e. it excludes persons in GQ's.

 PERSONS BELOW POVERTY LEVEL....  POOR      PCTPOOR   
     Poverty level is based on household size & number of children
     but does not take into acct variations in the cost of living
     by area % POOR is based on persons for whom pov. status was
     determined which excludes most people in grp qtrs.

 PERSONS BELOW 50% OF POVERTY...  VERYPOOR  PCTVERYP



XP9. LEVEL OF EDUCATION
 TOTAL PERSONS AGE 25+..........  AGE25_UP            
     All pcts are based on this 25 and over count.

  LESS THAN 9TH GRADE...........  ELEMEDUC  PCTELEM
  9TH TO 12TH GRADE, NO DIPLOMA.  HIGHSCH1  PCTHSCH1
  HIGH SCHOOL GRAD. (OR EQUIV)..  HIGHSCH2  PCTHSCH2
  SOME COLLEGE, NO DEGREE.......  COLLEGE1  PCTCOLL1
  ASSOCIATE/BACHELOR'S DEGREE...  ASSTBACH  PCTASSTB  
     ASSTBACH and PCTASSB are calculated for report. On data sets
     the variablesare COLLEGE2/PCTCOLL2 & COLLEGE3/PCTCOLL3 for   
     persons with associates & bachelor's degrees, resp.

  GRADUATE OR PROFSSIONAL DEGREE  COLLEGE4  PCTCOLL4

XP10. UNEMPLOYMNT: CIV LAB FORCE                     
     Persons Age 16+ Employed or Seeking Employment. Exclude
     Military.

 TOTAL CLF: UNEMPLOYED/RATE.....  UNEMPLYD  PCTUNEMP 
     To get CLF: 100*UNEMPLYD/ PCTUNEMP.

 FEMALE: UNEMPLOYED/RATE........  UNEMPFEM  
     PCTUNEMF Women in work force=100*UNEMPFEM/PCTUNEMF Data sets
     have vars CLF, CLFFEM, NONCLFF

XP11. OCCUPATION
 TOTAL EMPLOYED PERSONS AGE 16+.  EMPOVR16           
     Universe for all pcts.

 MANAGER. & PROF. SPECIALTY OCCS  MGRPROF   PCTMGPR
 TECH, SALES, ADMIN. SUPPORT....  TECHSADM  PCTTECHS
 SERVICE OCCUPATIONS............  SERVOCCS  PCTSERV
 FARM, FORESTRY, FISHING........  FARMETC   PCTFARME
 ALL OTHERS.....................  OTHEROCC  PCTOTHOC

XH1. GENERAL HOUSING UNITS
 TOTAL UNITS / OCCUPIED UNITS...  TOTUNITS  OCCUNITS
 % UNITS:OWNER OCC/RENTED/VACANT  PCTOWNER  PCTRENTR  PCTVACNT
     Data set has variables OWNEROCC, RENTED,VACANT.

 SINGLE-FAMILY UNITS............  UNITS1    PCTUNIT1
 IN BUILDINGS WITH 5+ UNITS.....  UNITS5UP  PCTUNIT5
 CONDOMINIUMS/MOBILE HOMES......  CONDOS    MOBILHMS


XH2. YEAR STRUCTURE BUILT
 MEDIAN YR BUILT/DECADE MOST BLT  MEDYRBLT  BUILDDEC  
     Median Year Blt: 1/2 homes built before this yr BUILDDEC id's
     the decade (or pre-1940) when most homes were built.

 BUILT IN BUSIEST DECADE........  NBUILTMD  PCTBLTMD  
     Number & % of homes built in BUILDDEC decade, above.

 BUILT 1985-MARCH 1990..........  BUILTA85  PCTBLT85
 BUILT 1939 OR EARLIER..........  BUILTP40  PCTBLT40

XH3. HOUSING VALUES AND RENTS
     Housing Values are based on asking owner what they thought
     house would sell for.

 SPEC. OWNER-OCC UNITS/AVG VALUE  SPOWNUNT  AVGHVAL  
     "Specified" units exclude homes on 10+ acres, in a commercial
     bldg, etc. If user checked "Over 500,000" then a value of
     600,000 was for median/average calcultn. If "Under 10,000"
     was chckd a value of 9,000 was used.

 UNITS PAYING CASH RENT/AVG RENT  UNTSCRNT  AVGRENT  
     This is "gross" rent which includes cost of utilities and
     fuels (oil, gas,etc.) In most '80 tables these were not
     included in "contract" rent figures.

 MEDIAN HOME VALUE/MEDIAN RENT..  MEDHVAL   MEDRENT
     Not reported but on data sets: XCENTRM, YCENTRM with
     geographic.centroid coordinates in miles.

                                                     
REV. 10-20-92, jgb
   
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