1990 Census of Population and Housing

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1990 Census of Population and Housing:

User Guide and Tutorial: Resources - CD-ROMS

CD-ROMS

Census CD-ROMS are available in the Government Information Center of the UCSB Library. Check at the service desk for individual titles.

Summary Tape Files

STF1A CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 1A - 100% data for states, counties, cities, census tracts, block groups, and districts of the 101st Congress. Data items include age by race and sex, marital status, household type, housing occupancy and vacancy characteristics, value and rent. .

STF1B CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 1B - 100% data to block level. Data items include a minimum number of population and housing variables.

STF1C CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 1C - 100% national data as well as urbanized areas, metropolitan areas, states, counties, and places of 10,000+. Provides 100% population and housing data items, including age by race and sex, marital status, household type, housing occupancy and vacancy characteristics, value and rent. .

STF1D CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 1D/3D - 100% data for 103rd and 104th Congress districts, states, and places. Provides 100% population and housing data items, including age by race and sex, marital status, household type, housing occupancy and vacancy characteristics, value and rent.

STF3A CD-ROM
Description: Summary Tape File 3A - 100% and sample data for states, counties, places, census tracts, and block groups. Provides 250 sample population and housing data variables, including educational attainment, income, occupation, ancestry, and transportation to work.

STF3B CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 3B - 100% and sample data to zip code level. Provides 250 sample population and housing data variables, including educational attainment, income, occupation, ancestry, and transportation to work.

STF3C CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 3C - 100% and sample national data as well as metropolitan areas, urbanized areas, states, counties, and places of 10,000+. Provides 250 sample population and housing data variables, including educational attainment, income, occupation, ancestry, and transportation to work.

STF3D CD-ROM.
Description: Summary Tape File 3D/1D - 100% and sample data for 103rd and 104th Congress districts. Provides 250 sample population and housing data variables, including educational attainment, income, occupation, ancestry, and transportation to work.

Subject Summary Tape Files

Subject summary tape files are extremely detailed cross-tabulations of population and housing data. The CD-ROM format was used to complete the Housing Subject Series and Population Subject Series. All of the CD-ROMS include technical documentation. The numbering of the housing and population subject reports are intermingled but segregated for purposes of this bibliography.

Housing Subject Summary Tape Files.

Condominium Housing. SSTF18. U.S. and State.
Housing Characteristics of New Units. SSTF9. U.S. and State.
Housing of the Elderly. SSTF8. U.S. and State.
Metropolitan Housing Characteristics. SSTF7. U.S., States, MSAs, and Central Cities.
Mobile Homes. SSTF10. U.S. and State.

Population Subject Summary Tape Files.

Ancestry of the Population. SSTF2. U.S. and State.
Characteristics of Adults with Work Disabilities, Mobility Limitations, or Self-Care Limitations. SSTF4. U.S., State, and MSA.
Characteristics of American Indians by Tribe and Language. SSTF13. U.S., State, and MSA.
Characteristics of the Asian and Pacific Islander Population. SSTF5. U.S. and State.
Characteristics of the Black Population. SSTF21. U.S., State, MSA.
Earnings by Occupation and Education. SSTF22. U.S., States, and MSAs. Also on the
Education in the United States. SSTF6. U.S., Region, and State.
Employment Status, Work Experience, and Veteran Status. SSTF12. U.S. and State.
Fertility. SSTF16. U.S. and State.
Foreign-Born Population in the United States. SSTF1. U.S. and State.
Geographic Mobility. SSTF15. State.
Journey to Work. SSTF20. U.S., CMSA/PMSA, Central City.
Occupation and Industry. SSTF14. U.S. and State.
Older Population of the United States. SSTF19. U.S., Region and State.
Persons of Hispanic Origin. SSTF3. U.S. and State.
Poverty Areas in the United States. SSTF17. U.S., State, MSA, County, Central City, and Census Tract.

Special Tabulations

County-to-County Migration Flows CD-ROM. County data only. In-migration and out-migration between county of residence in 1985 and county of residence in 1990.

EEO CD-ROM.
Equal Employment Opportunity Files for the U.S., states, and places of 50,000+. Documents Center. Employment for 514 occupations by race/sex and educational attainment by age/race/sex.

PUMS-5% and 1% CD-ROM.
Sample microdata to create own tabulations to Public Use Microdata Sample Areas. CDs available but software on disk difficult to use. Better option may be magnetic tape at Ulysses software developed by CIESIN.

PL94-171 CD-ROM.
Race and voting age data to block level.

School District Data Book CD-ROM.
School district, state, and U.S. data.
Basic population and housing data with school finance and enrollment data for each of the nation's school districts. Maps of school boundaries. Also on the World Wide Web from Oregon State University as http://www.govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/sddb-stateis.html

SPECIAL TABULATION ON AGING CD-ROM.
Sample data for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places of 2500+.
Approximately 650 variables for the population 65+ with some data for five-year age groups, 55-84.