Description

GEO2_US2015 identifies the household's PUMA (Public Use Microdata Area) within United States in 2015. PUMAs are the second level administrative units of the country for census purposes, after states. Year-specific shapefile for GEO2_US2015 cannot be provided due to changing geographic definitions between sample years.

The full set of geography variables for United States can be found in the IPUMS International Geography variables list. For cross-national geographic analysis on the first and second major administrative level of any country refer to GEOLEV1, and GEOLEV2. More information on IPUMS-International geography can be found here.

Note that since the 2015 sample in IPUMS International is a 2011 to 2015 ACS sample, 2011 PUMA codes are different from the 2012-2015 PUMA codes. More details on construction of PUMAs can be found in IPUMS USA website. The following excel file lists GEO2_US2015 and their relationship to CPUMA0010. Codes from the 2011 ACS sample are found here .

Comparability — General

Due to significant population losses in the New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina, the Census merged 3 PUMAs in Louisiana (2201801, 2201802, and 2201905) into 1 PUMA (2277777).

Universe

Availability

• United States: 2015