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Data Dictionary: Census 1960 Tracts Only Set
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Data Source: Social Explorer & U.S. Census Bureau - DUALabs
Universe: Renter Occupied Housing Units
Variable Details
T185. Year Structure Built (Renter Occupied Housing Units)
Universe: Renter Occupied Housing Units
T185_003 Built Before 1950
Percent base:
Renter Occupied Housing Units (SE:T185_001)
Aggregation method:
Addition
Formula used to compute this variable:
Return_Value = ORG:T046_003 + ORG:T046_004 - ORG:T046_007
Variables used in the formula:
ORG:T046_003
Total occupied and vacant units: Year Structure Built: 1940-1949
ORG:T046_004
Total occupied and vacant units: Year Structure Built: Before 1940
ORG:T046_007
Owner-occupied units: Year Structure Built: Before 1950
Relevant Documentation:
Excerpt from: Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Censuses of Population and Housing: 1960. Census Tracts. Final Report PHC(1)-11. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1962.
  Census Tract Data, 1940-1970: Elizabeth Mullen Bogue File -> Census Tracts -> Housing Characteristics -> Year structure built
Year structure built
Year built refers to the date the original construction of the structure was completed, not to any later remodeling, addition, or conversion.

The figures on the number of units built during a given period do not necessarily represent the number of housing units added to the inventory during that period. The figures represent the number of units constructed during a given period plus the number created by conversions in structures originally built during that period, minus the number lost in structures built during the period. Losses occur through demolition, fire, flood, disaster, and conversion to nonresidential use or to fewer housing units.

Excerpt from: Social Explorer; U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Censuses of Population and Housing: 1960. Census Tracts. Final Report PHC(1)-11. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1962.
  Census Tract Data, 1940-1970: Elizabeth Mullen Bogue File -> Census Tracts -> Housing Characteristics -> Occupied housing unit
Occupied housing unit
A housing unit is occupied if it was the usual place of residence for the person or group of persons living in it at the time of enumeration. Included are units occupied by persons who were only temporarily absent (for example, on vacation) and units occupied by persons with no usual place of residence elsewhere.