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Data Dictionary: Census 1960 (US, County & State)
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Data Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Universe: Married Couples Without Own HU
Variable Details
T16. % Married Couples Without Own HU
Universe: Married Couples Without Own HU
T016_001% Married Couples Without Own HU
Percent base:
None - percentages not computed
Aggregation method:
None -- No totals are displayed for this variable when multiple geographies are aggregated.
Relevant Documentation:
Excerpt from: U.S. Bureau of the Census. U.S. Census of Population: 1960. Subject Reports, Families. Final Report PC(2)-4A. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 1963.
  Families (Volume II, Part IV - Subject Reports) -> Definitions and Explanations -> Household and family -> Married couple
Married couple
A married couple is defined as a husband and his wife enumerated as members of the same household. The number of married couples is the sum of the number of husband-wife families and husband- wife subfamilies.
Excerpt from: U.S. Bureau of the Census. U.S. Census of Population: 1960. Subject Reports, Families. Final Report PC(2)-4A. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 1963.
  Families (Volume II, Part IV - Subject Reports) -> Definitions and Explanations -> Household and family -> Household
Household
A household consists of all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is either (1) direct access from the outside or through a common hall or (2) a kitchen or cooking equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.

All persons who are not members of households are regarded as living in group quarters; that is, in living quarters for institutional inmates or for other groups containing five or more persons unrelated to the person in charge. Most of the persons in group quarters live in rooming houses, college dormitories, military barracks, or institutions. The present report excludes persons in group quarters, a very small number of whom may have had relatives present. In the 1960 Census, persons in group quarters were sampled on an individual basis, and no information on family relationship was obtained for them.