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PWPUMA identifies the location of the respondent's primary workplace, in terms of the Public Use Microdata Area, a Census Bureau-defined area of 100,000+ residents.

In the 1990 State sample, PUMAs generally follow the boundaries of groups of counties, single counties, or census-defined "places"; if such areas exceed 200,000 residents, they are divided into as many PUMAs of 100,000+ residents as possible. In the 1990 Metro sample, PUMAs generally follow the boundaries of central cities, metropolitan areas (see METAREA for the definition of this concept), or non-metropolitan places, and they are divided into as many PUMAs of 100,000+ residents as possible, if the population of such areas exceeds 200,000. Thus, while PUMAs in both samples designate geographic areas of 100,000+ residents, the codes and the logic of the geography of PUMAs differ for these 1990 samples.

In both the State and the Metro sample for 1990, the codes for PWPUMA are state-dependent (in the case of Puerto Rico, codes for PWPUMA are dependent on Puerto Rico), so PWPUMA can only be interpreted in combination with PWSTATE2.

PUMAs defined for place of work (PWPUMA) differ slightly from PUMAs defined for place of current residence (PUMA). PWPUMA provides detail to only 3 digits of the 5-digit PUMA code. Therefore, any PUMAs that use the fourth and fifth digit are aggregated together in PWPUMA.