Description

FARM identifies farm households. All group quarters are coded as non-farm, as are all housing units defined as outside the universe for FARM, above.

User caution: Due to the way that IPUMS splits Group Quarters with 60+ residents, some people with missing FARM information have been incorrectly allocated farm status. A fix for this error is underway. In the meantime, users can correct this programmatically by changing the value from FARM=2 to FARM=1 where QFARM=4 and SPLIT=1.

Comparability

The Census Bureau's methods for defining and identifying farms have changed several times:

• For 1850-1880, the IPUMS constructs FARM from occupational data. Any household containing a person with the occupation "farmer" is coded as a farm.
• For 1900, a household counted as a farm if a member of the household operated a farm. In 1900 and earlier years, it is not possible to tell whether members of the household actually lived on the farm or owned the farm they operated.
• For the 1910 and 1920U.S. census samples, enumerators identified farms using the following criteria: any household located on either a tract of 3 or more acres used for any agricultural operations, regardless of the amount of labor or produce involved, or households on a tract of fewer than 3 acres that either yielded $250+ in produce sales in the previous year or employed at least one full-time farmer or agricultural laborer.
• For the 1910 Puerto Rican census sample, a household counted as a farm if the head of house operated a farm.
• For the 1920 Puerto Rican census sample, farm was not asked directly, thus farm status was determined based on whether or not enumerators had recorded a farm schedule for the household (see FARMSCHD).
• For 1930-1950, enumerators simply asked respondents whether the house in which they lived was located on a farm.
• For 1960 and 1970, a farm was either 1) a household on 10+ acres that yielded $50+ in produce, or 2) a household on fewer than 10 acres that yielded $250+ in produce.
• For the 1980-2000 sample, the ACS and the PRCS, a farm was any household on 1+ acres that yielded $1000+ in produce in the prior year.

Universe

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Editing Procedure

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