Description

This variable indicates the metropolitan area, if any, where the respondent lived 5 years ago, if the size of the metropolitan area was large enough to be identified by name under confidentiality requirements. Metropolitan areas consist of a large central city and surrounding counties that are economically integrated with that city.

Universe

• United States 1980: Persons age 5+; 50 percent of cases

Availability

• United States: 1980

Integrated variables

• None