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PWMET98E
Place of work: detailed urban/rural categories
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Description

PWMET98E traces the movements of workers from their residences to their workplaces, providing information not available in PWMETRO or PWMET98. PWMET98E provides detail on the size of the place population by Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) size. Calvin Beale and Glenn Fuguitt developed the coding scheme to distinguish urban and rural places within metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas (See G. Fuguitt, D. Brown, and C. Beale, Rural and Small Town America, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1989). The classification is divided by the size of the metropolitan area and the place population size within nonmetropolitan counties.

The classification delineates places within the 1980 Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) by population sizes over 500,000, under 500,000, and nonmetropolitan areas outside the SMSA. (See METAREA for additional information about metropolitan areas.) Residents within SMSAs are divided into central city, places with more than 2,500 residents (urban areas), and places with less than 2,500 people (rural places). Residents outside of the SMSAs or in nonmetropolitan areas are divided by the size of the place population.

Responses to questions about migration in the 1980 census were coded for only half the persons included in the IPUMS. These codes provide accurate proportional distributions but not correct absolute numbers for the general population. For correct absolute numbers, users should select cases coded as 2 in MIGSAMP and multiply by 2 as well as by PERWT.

Codes

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Comparability

This variable is only available for the 1980 Detailed Metro/Nonmetro sample.

Universe

  • Persons age 16+ who worked last week and reported their place of work in the United States or Puerto Rico; 50 percent of cases (see MIGSAMP).

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