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NMOTHERS
Number of mothers in household

Description

NMOTHERS is a constructed variable that uses MOMLOC and MOMLOC2 to count the number of women within each unit who are identified as residing with their children. Units with no mothers present are coded "0." MOMLOC2 is only available in samples 1970 and later. For persons in households, NMOTHERS indicates the number of identified mothers in the household; for persons in group quarters in the period before 1940, NMOTHERS indicates the number of identified mothers 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.