Description

GEO2_US1990 identifies the household's PUMA (Public Use Microdata Area) within United States in 1990. PUMAs are the second level administrative units of the country for census purposes, after states. A GIS map (in shapefile format), corresponding to GEO2_US1990 can be downloaded from the GIS Boundary files page in the IPUMS International web site. The GIS boundary files for GEO2_US1990 are based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2000 TIGER/Line files.

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.

More details on construction of PUMAs can be found in IPUMS USA website. The following excel file lists GEO2_US1990 and their relationship to CONSPUMA.

Comparability — General

There are no comparability issues.

Universe

Availability

• United States: 1990