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NFATHERS
Number of fathers in household

Description

NFATHERS is a constructed variable that uses POPLOC and POPLOC2 to count the number of men within each unit who are identified as residing with their children. Units with no fathers present are coded "0." POPLOC2 is only available in samples 1970 and later. For persons in households, NFATHERS indicates the number of identified fathers in the household; for persons in group quarters in the period before 1940, NFATHERS indicates the number of identified fathers in any group of related individuals.

The universe for this variable from 1850 to 1930 and the 1940 100% dataset is all sample units, which relies on SAMPRULE. Additionally, the universe for this variable in the 1910-1920 Puerto Rican censuses is SAMPRULE not equal to 4.