Description

Data quality flag for all variables in household record.

In some years, the census PUMS differentiated between two types of editing processes: allocations and substitutions. Substitution was the method used to create QSUBSTIH, which can be used as a flag for both household and person records. Substitution assigned a full set of characteristics for people in a household. If there was an indication that a household was occupied by a specified number of people but the questionnaire contained no information for people within the household, or if the occupants were not listed on the questionnaire, the Census Bureau selected a previously accepted household of the same size with the same demographic characteristics and substituted its full set of characteristics for this household. The exact method used for this substitution is not fully clear, though it is similar to the hot deck allocation method, and was administered through a computer editing process.

QSUBSTIH is available for the 1970, 2000, and 2010 U.S. and Puerto Rican censuses as well as for the 1990 Puerto Rican census.

In 1970, the census distinguished between households where substitutions were made because of mechanical or technical failures (captured in QSUBSTIH) and those where the census was unable to obtain any response from the household members (captured in QCLOSEOU). Users may want to combine these two variables in their analysis, whether looking at household-level or person-level variables, though it should be noted that there are some overlapping cases that are classified as substituted (code=6) in both QSUBSTIH and QCLOSEOU.

In 2000, users may want to use QSUBSTIH in combination with QAUGMENH, as this variable is the data quality flag for all variables in the household record, which identifies edits through the allocation process. During these years, the exact allocation processes used by the census are not differentiated from one another, and thus allocations in QAUGMENH may be the result of one of four types: pre-edits, consistency edits, hot deck allocations and cold deck allocations.

1970, 1990, 2000, 2010
0 - Unaltered case.
6 - Substituted record (All data for household substituted due to technical difficulty and/or no one was able to provide information on the household).

Comparability

No information available.

Universe

Availability

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• 2000: 5%; 1% old; 1% unwt; 1%
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• 1970: All samples
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• 2000: All samples
• 1990: All samples
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• 1970: All samples
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Flags

This variable has no flags.

Editing Procedure

There is no editing procedure available for this variable.