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Directory of Data
Sources on Racial
and Ethnic Minorities
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics

1975

Bulietin 1879




Directory of Data
Sources on Racial
and Ethnic M inorities
U.S. Department of Labor
John T. Dunlop, Secretary
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Julius Shiskin, Commissioner
1975
Bulletin 1879

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Preface
This BLS bulletin provides users of statistics on racial and ethnic minority
groups with a comprehensive annotated reference to many sources of data on
minority groups published by the Federal Government.
The directory identifies and describes a large and diverse number of recent
demographic, social, and economic data sources published by a number of Fed­
eral agencies, and directs users to appropriate sources, consistent with their
needs. A special feature of this publication is the inclusion of data locater tables in
the Appendixes, which facilitate the location of minority group data from the 1970
census, and recent Current Population Surveys.
This directory was prepared by Earl F. Mellor, under the direction of Harvey R.
Hamel, in the Division of Labor Force Studies, Robert L. Stein, Chief.
Appreciation is expressed to personnel of several government agencies, espe­
cially the U.S. Bureau of the Census, for their assistance in the preparation of this
report.




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Contents
Page
General Introduction.................................................................................................................................................. 1
Introduction of statistical data sources...................................................................................................................
Census of Population and Housing: 1970......................................................................................................
Census o f Population: 1970, rep o rts.....................................................................................................
Census o f Housing: 1970, re p o rts .................................................................... .....................................
Joint population-housing rep o rts............................................................................................................
Current Population Survey (C P S )................................................................................................................ ,
The Current Population Survey vs. the Decennial Census: Advantages and D isadvantages............
Other data sources.............................................................................................................................................

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3
4
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6

Section I. Black A m ericans........................................
7
Introduction......................................................................................................................................................... 7
Reports from the Census of Population and Housing: 1970...................................................................... 8
Census o f Population: 1970, rep o rts..................................................................................................... 8
Census o f Housing: 1970, re p o rts ........................................................................................................... 15
JoinLpopulation-housing rep o rts.............................................................................................
17
Supplementary R eports..............................................................................
17
Reports from the Current Population S u rv ey ................................................... ......................................... 19
Data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics........................................................................... 19
Data published by the Bureau of the Census..................................................................................... 24
Data published by the Department of A griculture............................................................................ 31
Selected other data so u rc e s........................................................................................................................... 31
Section II. Persons of Spanish an cestry ..............................................................................................................
Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................
Reports from the Census of Population and Housing: 1970 ....................................................................
Census o f Population: 1970, rep o rts.....................................................................................................
Census o f Housing: 1970, re p o rts ........................................................................................................
Joint population-housing rep o rts...........................................................................................................
Supplementary R eports...........................................................................................................................
Reports from the Current Population S u rv ey .........................................................................
Data published by the Bureau of Labor S tatistics...........................................................................
Data published by the Bureau of the Census.....................................................................................
Selected other data so u rc e s...........................................................................................................................

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Section III. Races other than b lack ......................................................................................................................
Introduction.......................................................................................................................................................
Reports from the Census of Population and Housing: 1970....................................................................
Census o f Population: 1970, rep o rts.....................................................................................................
Census o f Housing: 1970, re p o rts ........................................................................................................

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Joint population-housing rep o rts........................................................................................................... 55
Selected other data so u rc e s........................................................................................................................... 56
Section IV. Ethnic groups other than Spanish a n c e stry ..................................................................................
Introduction........................................................................................................................................................
Reports from the Census of Population and Housing: 1970 .....................................................................
Census of Population: 1970, rep o rts.....................................................................................................
Joint population-housing rep o rts...........................................................................................................
Reports from the Current Population S u rv e y .................................... ........................................................

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Appendixes:
A. How to find source publications................................................................................................................. 62
B. Locater Guide for national level data in the 1970 decennial c e n s u s ................................................... 64
C. State, area, place, and other sub-national level data in the 1970 c e n s u s ............................................ 73
D. Previously issued sources of data for black Americans from the Current Population Survey........ 76
E. Subject and report series indexes.........................................................................................................
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General Introduction
This directory was planned and developed in
response to a large number of inquiries regularly
directed to the B ureau of L abor S tatistics by
m inority data users of all types. These include
private and governm ent officials and analysts,
m an p o w er p la n n e rs, a c ad e m ic ian s, p erso n s
involved in administering affirmative action and
other minority employment programs, and other
persons. These requests typically relate to a wide
range of subject m atter, geographic location and
detail. The information on minority data sources in
this directory is directed to the needs expressed by
many of these data users.

statistics collected in the Department of Defense. In
addition there are numerous federally funded studies
pertaining to limited areas of the Nation (or areas as
small as portions of a single city).
There are four major sections to this directory of
data source publication—blacks, persons of Spanish
ancestry, other races, and other ethnic groups. The
first section contains listings of statistics on blacks as
well as persons classified as “ Negro and other
races.” This latter classification refers to blacks and
all other nonwhite races combined. As blacks com­
prise about 90 percent of “ Negro and other races,”
data included in this latter category generally reflect
the social and economic conditions of black Ameri­
cans.
The second section contains inform ation on
p erso n s of S panish a n c e stry . T his m inority
population is comprised of several ethnic groups and
may be of any race, however most are white. There
are several indicators of Spanish ancestry used in the
p re s e n ta tio n of S panish A m erican d a ta , (see
page 35.)
The third section is concerned with minority races
other than Negro. Data have been published for
American Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos,
Koreans, Hawaiians, Eskimos, and Aleuts. Data
published as “ other races” (combing all races other
than white or Negro), are not cited here, as “ other
races” data do not accurately depict the social and
economic characteristics of any one other race.
The fourth section cites sources of data for ethnic
groups other than persons of Spanish ancestry.
These other ethnic groups may be of any race—most
are white—and there is more than one indicator of
ethnicity used in the presentation of ethnic group
data (see page 58.)

Data sources covered in this directory include
recent Federal Government publications presenting
the social and economic characteristics of minority
groups for the Nation and selected areas based
prim arily on household surveys. These include
reports from the 1970 Census of Population and
Housing and from monthly C urrent Population
S urveys. In ad d itio n , th ere are references to
program and estab lish m en t re p o rts, including
regular reports prepared by the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission, the Civil Service Com­
mission, and selected publications prepared by other
F ederal agencies. D ata source listings include publi­

cations available to the Division of Labor Force
Studies as of September 30, 1974.
Federal Government sources of minority group
statistics not covered in this directory include vital
and health statistics provided by the National Center
for Health Statistics in HEW ; arrest and prison
population statistics collected by the Department of
Justice; school desegregation data compiled by the
Office for Civil Rights in HEW ; and armed forces




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Introduction of Statistical Data Sources
Census of Population and Housing: 1970

Characteristics” ). 2Each chapter (for each “ part” )
was first issued as an individual paperbound report in
four series designated as PC(1)-A, B, C, and D,
respectively.3
The emphasis of Volume I is statistics for States;
standard metropolitan statistical areas; urbanized
areas; cities, towns, and unincorporated places of
1,000 inhabitants or more, and counties. Part I,
“ United States Summary” , also presents data for
the Nation, and its four regions and nine divisions.
Volum e II is alm ost exclusively devoted to
providing detailed statistical data on a nationwide
basis with considerable cross-classification of
c h a ra c te ristic item s—w ith occasional d ata on
regions, State, areas, and places. The reports in this
volume concentrate on particular subjects; hence the
title—Subject R eports. Thirty-nine reports covering
10 subject areas have been released. Subject areas
co v ered are: ethnic and racial groups (seven
reports), migration (five), fertility (one), marriage
and living arrangements (five), education (three),
employment (five, occupation and industry (six),
income (three), low-income (two), and areas (two).
The 39 reports contain a total of nearly 15,000 pages
of statistical tables. Additional Subject Reports may
be scheduled for future publication.
The seven Subject Reports on ethnic and racial
groups should be of special interest to the user of this
Directory, particularly six which have tables of
alm ost id en tic a l fo rm a t, th u s allow ing d ire c t
comparison of social and economic characteristics
among the minority groups. The six reports are:

Census of Population: 1970, reports
The Census o f Population: 1970 (PC) reports focus
on the demographic, social, and economic charac­
teristics of persons and families, while Census o f
H ousing: 1970 (HC) publications focus on the
characteristics of housing units and households. The
joint population-housing reports that arise from this
census present material for both areas of interest.
The subject boundaries are not absolute. Some of the
PC reports contain selected housing and household
data and many HC reports include characteristic
data for persons and families as well as for housing
units and households.
Each of the three broad groupings is divided into 2
to 7 “ volumes” or “ series” of publications. Each
volum e (or se rie s), som e su b-divided into
“ chapters,” contains as few as one, or as many as
278 individual published reports.
The C ensus o f P o p u la tio n : 1970 p u blished
m a te ria l

is

d iv id e d

in to

tw o

v o lu m e s —

Characteristics o f the Population (volume I) and
S u b je c t
R e p o rts
(volum e
II).
Volum e
I consists of 58 “ parts” —number 1 or the “ United
States Summary,” numbers 2 through 52 for the 50
States and the District of Columbia1 in alphabetical
order, and numbers 53 through 58 for Puerto Rico,
Guam, Virgin Islands, Am erican Sam oa, Canal
Zone, and Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,
respectively. Each “ part” is a separate hardcover
book(s) containing from 230 to as many as 3,075
pages of statistical data and about 70 pages of
introductory material definitions and explanations of
terms, facsimiles of questionnaries, and discussions
of data collection and accuracy. A “ part” contains
four chapters designated as “ A ” (“ Num ber of
In h a b ita n ts ” ), “ B ” (“ G eneral P o p u latio n
C h a ra c te ristic s” ), “ C ” (“ G eneral Social and
Econom ic C h a ra c te ristic s” ), “ D ” (“ D etailed

PC(2)-1B
PC(2)-1C
PC(2)-1D
PC(2)-1E

2Parts 54-58 are bound together in one book. Each of these 5
parts contains only 2 chapters, A and B.
3The hardbound volume I, reports, have several distinct advan­
tages over the paperbound reports: (1) durability, (2) centralized
detailed data locater tables inside the front and back covers of
each part, (3) corrections of typographical errors found in the
paperbound edition, and (4) retabulation of rural nonfarm and
rural-farm data, all of which were erroneous in the PC(1)-C paperbound reports.

*A11 references in this directory to “ 51 States” refer to the 50
States and the District of Columbia.




“ Negro Population”
“ Persons of Spanish Origin”
“ Persons of Spanish Surname”
“ Puerto Ricans in the United States”

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non-metropolitan residence as well as for central city
or suburban residence within SMSA’s.
The third volume (Block S tatistics) presents
selected characteristics for individual blocks within
each urbanized area. The 278 publications in this
series include reports for 236 urbanized areas (in
many cases block data are presented for adjacent
te rrito ry ), and 42 S ta te re p o rts covering the
communities outside urbanized areas which have
contracted with the Census Bureau to provide block
statistics from the 1970 census.
Volume IV (Components o f Inventory Change) is
a series of 16 paperbound reports-one for each of 15
major SMSA’s and a United States summary report
presenting national and regional data. This volume
contains data on the disposition of the 1960 housing
inventory and the source of the 1970 inventory. In
addition, there are cross-tabulations of 1970 and 1960
characteristics for units which have not changed, as
well as characteristics of the present and previous
residence of recent movers. The statistics presented
in this report are based on information for a sample of
housing u n its e n u m erated in the se p ara te
Components of Inventory Change Survey conducted
in December 1970.
Volum e V (R esidential F inance) is a single
hardcover report with national and regional data
regarding the financing of privately owned nonfarm
residential properties. Data are from a separate
survey conducted in 1971.
Volume VI, Plumbing Facilities and Estimates o f
D ila p id a ted H o u s in g , c o n sists of a single
p a p e rb o u n d re p o rt rep re se n tin g estim a tes of
su b sta n d a rd housing for the N a tio n , S ta te s,
SMSA’s, cities of 50,000 inhabitants or more, and
metropolitan centers. These data are the sum of the
counts of housing units lacking some or all plumbing
facilities and estimates of dilapidated units with
complete plumbing facilities. The counts are from
the housing census itself, while the estimates are
synthetically derived from the data in volume IV.
Volume VII is a series of nine Subject Reports
devoted to furnishing statistical data for the United
States as a whole—with frequent data on regions and
occasional data on States, areas, and places. The
reports in this volume concentrate on particular
subjects and are analogous to the PC(2) series of
reports from the population census. The nine reports
c o v er c ro ss-c la ssific a tio n of such to p ics as
household com position, the housing of senior
citizens, space utilization, structural characteristics,
housing of recent (1965-70) mover households,
mobile hom es, geographic aspects of housing,
cooperative and condominium housing; and the

PC(2)-1F “ American Indians”
PC(2)-1G “ Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos in the United
States”

Report PC(2)-1A, National Origin and Language,
is the principal source of information for ethnic
groups other than persons of Spanish ancestry;
how ever its tables provide only limited form at
comparability to the minority group data presented
in reports PC(2)-1B through 1G.

Census of Housing: 1970, reports
The 1970 Census of Housing consists of seven
volum es— H ousing C haracteristics fo r S ta tes,
C ities, and C o u n tie s; M e tro p o lita n H o using
Characteristics; Block Statistics; Components o f
Inventory Change; Residential Finance; Plumbing
Facilities and Estimates o f Dilapidated Housing;
and Subject Reports.
Volume I (Housing Characteristics fo r States,
C ities,
and C o u n ties )
co n sists
of 58
“ parts” —Number 1 for the United States Summary,
numbers 2 through 53 for the fifty States and the
District of Columbia in alphabetical order, followed
by Puerto Rico and the outlying territories. Each part
is a separate hardcover book, except numbers 54
through 58 which are combined under one cover.
Each part contains two chapters designated as “ A”
(“ General Housing C haracteristics” ), and “ B ”
(“ D etailed H ousing C h a ra c te ris tic s ” ), except
numbers 54 through 58, which contain only one
chapter. Each chapter was originally issued as
individual p a p e rb o u n d re p o rts in tw o series
designated as HC(1)-A and B.
The emphasis in Volume I is on statistics for
States; SMSA’s, urbanized areas; cities, towns, and
unincorporated places of 1,000 inhabitants or more;
and counties. Part 1, “ United States Summary,”
however, presents data for the Nation, its four
regions, and nine geographic divisions.
The volume II, reports (Metropolitan Housing
Characteristics) cover most of the 1970 census
housing subjects in considerable detail and with
cross-classification. Volume II consists of 248
p a p e rb o u n d b o o k s—N um ber 1 is a n ational
summary; number 2 through 244 are separate reports
for each SMS A recognized for the 1970 census, in
alphabetical order; and num bers 245-248 cover
SMSA’s in Puerto Rico.
Each report presents data for the SMSA, its
central city, and all places of 50,000 inhabitants or
m ore. The sum m ary re p o rt p re se n ts housing
statistics of the Nation according to metropolitan or



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housing of selected minority races.

data for the HC(4), HC(5), HC(6), and PHC(3) series
of reports.
Since most reported estimates are based on the 5,
15, or 20 percent samples, they may differ somewhat
from the figures that would have been obtained if a
complete (100 percent) census were taken using the
same schedules, instructions, and interviewers, i.e.,
th ey are su b ject to sam pling v ariab ility . The
standard error is primarly a measure of this sampling
variability. E ach rep o rt based on sam ple data
contains tables of such standard errors of estimates
as well as instructions for and examples of their use.
In general, the smaller the number of persons (or
housing units) with a given ch aracteristic; the
smaller the base population of a number, percentage,
or median; the smaller the difference between two
numbers; or the greater the cross-classification, the
greater is the need to refer to the standard error
tables to determine potential sampling error.

Joint population-housing reports
There are three series of joint population-housing
reports from the 1970 census designated as PH C(l),
PHC(2), and PHC(3). Series PH C(l), Census Tracts ,
consists of 241 reports—one for each of the 241
standard metropolitan statistical areas which were
tracted. These reports contain data on 32,169 census
tracts in SMSA’s as well as a total of 604 tracts lying
outside and adjacent to SMSA’s. Census tracts are
small areas into which cities and adjacent areas have
been divided for statistical purposes. They are
generally designed to be relatively uniform with
respect to population characteristics, economic
status, and living conditions. The average tract has
about 4,000 residents, although some tracts may
have 10,000 or m ore residents. The individual
PH C(l) reports vary in size with coverage from as
few as 13 to as many as 2,896 census tracts.
Series PHC(2), General Demographic Trends fo r
Metropolitan Areas, 1960 to 1970, consists of 52
re p o rts —one fo r each S ta te , the D istrict of
Columbia, and a United States summary. This series
was the first set of final reports to have been
completed in the publication program of the 1970
C en su s. T he s ta tis tic s p re s e n te d in th ese
publications, however, were drawn largely from
advance reports and generally reappear in the
PC(1)-B and HC(1)-A final report series. The PHC(3)
s e rie s, E m p lo y m e n t P ro files o f S e le c te d
Low-Income A reas, consists of 76 reports from the
Census Em ploym ent Surveys taken during the
period from August 1970 to March 1971 in 60 areas of
51 cities and in eight rural areas. One report was
issued for each area. For cities having two or more
areas, summary reports were issued as well. A total
of 11 reports cover the low-income areas of New
York City. In addition a United States Summary
re p o rt co n ta in s d a ta fo r the 60 u rb an areas
combined.4
All reports from the 1970 census are based on
sample data with the exception of the PC(1)-A,
PC(1)-B, HC(1)-A, HC(3), and PHC(2) series and a
portion of the PH C (l) Series, which contain 100
percent data. Sampling rates were either 5, 15, or 20
percent except for the separate surveys providing

Current Population Survey (CPS)
The C urrent Population Survey (CPS) is the
source of large portions of data published in three
major series of publications—Current Population
Reports, Em ployment and Earnings, and Special
Labor Force Reports.
Current Population Reports (CPR) issued regu­
larly by the Bureau of the Census, consist of 8 sub­
series of publications—Series P-20, Population
Characteristics; P-23, Special Studies; P-25, Popula­
tion Estimates and Projections; P-26, Federal-State
Cooperative Program for Population Estim ates;
P-27, Farm Population; P-28 Special Censuses; P-60,
Consumer Income; and P-65 Consumer Buying Indi­
cators.
Employment and Earnings, issued monthly by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, contains num erous
statistical tables of household data collected in the
CPS. Some of these data are also published by BLS
in the Monthly Labor Review.
In addition, the Bureau of Labor Statistics pub­
lishes a series of reports entitled Special Labor
Force Reports. These are occasional reprints of
selected articles from the Monthly Labor Review and
are usually appended with detailed statistical tables
containing CPS data.
The survey itself consists of a sample of approxi­
mately 47,000 occupied households eligible for in­
terview each month, located in 461 areas comprising
923 counties and independent cities with coverage in

4Detailed information on the coverage and usage of the PHC(3)
series of reports can be found in Census Employment Survey
User's Guide, BLS Report 420, which can be obtained free of
charge by writing the Office of Information, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. 20212.




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present time. Regular data for persons of Spanish
origin, except for those selected Current Population
Reports and Special Labor Force Reports men­
tioned elsewhere in this directory, became avail­
able on a quarterly basis beginning April 1974. On
the other hand, although decennial census data in­
clude a vastly greater amount of statistical detail on
blacks; persons of Spanish ancestry, other races,
and other ethnic origin groups, this wide coverage
comes at the expense of factors found desirable in
the CPS. Decennial census data are available only at
10 year intervals, and there is a much longer time
period between enumeration and publication. For
example, some of the more detailed 1970 census
tabulations at the national level (e.g. most of the
Subject Reports) were not available until 1973.
M oreover, during any 10-year period, the economic
and social conditions of any area’s population often
change significantly, making decennial census data
less useful as the decade progresses.
Other advantages of the CPS include the method
of data collection. CPS data are collected by highly
trained regular employees of the Census Bureau,
knowledgeable about survey methods and tech­
niques, under very rigid specifications and tight
control. Decennial census data, on the other hand,
w ere, for the m ost p a rt, c o lle cte d thru
self-enumeration of respondents, which is generally
viewed as a less reliable survey technique. In
addition, the vast size of the decennial effort
n e c e ssita te d the hiring o f a large num ber of
temporary enumerators and support staff members.
This resulted in a much less screened, less trained,
and less experienced staff than those working in the
CPS program.
In addition to the advantages of decennial census
data already cited, another is the fact that the 1970
census was based on larger (and thus more statisti­
cally reliable) samples. Most of the census was based
on 5, 15, and 20 percent samples, while some demo­
graphic and housing data were based on 100 percent
enumerations. Generally, the 1970 census sample
w as large enough to p erm it p u b licatio n of
considerable subject m atter detail as well as to
provide data at the State, area, city, and census tract
levels. Some 100 percent items are even published at
the city block level. The CPS, on the other hand,
provides only very limited area detail (10 States, 20
SM SA’s, and the central cities of 14 SM SA’s)
annually since 1967, due to its relatively small
sample size with attendent large standard errors of
estim ate. Thus very limited CPS area detail is
available for minority group members.

each of the States and the District of Columbia. Of
these, about 2,000 occupied units, on the average,
are visited but interviews are not obtained because
the occupants are not found at home after repeated
calls or are unavailable for some other reason.
The 45,000 interviews represent a sampling rate of
about one-in-fourteen hundred households.
Each month, this survey contains questions on
labor force and employment items which are tabu­
lated for publication by the Bureau of Labor Statis­
tics in Em ployment and Earnings. In addition, sup­
plemental questions relating to other social and
economic characteristics of the work force or of
particular subgroups therein are included in specific
m onths’ surveys. Examples found in such CPS sup­
plements are questions on income, marital status,
educational attainment and work experience in the
March survey; usual weekly earnings in the May
survey; and school enrollment in October. These
supplemental surveys provide the basis of most BLS
Special Labor Force Reports and the P-20, P-23, and
P-60, Series of the Current Population Reports.
The relatively small CPS sample size results in a
greater degree of sampling variability than is the case
with the decennial census. This is particularly true
for minority group statistics. Thus, published CPS
data on minority groups should always be checked
for statistical reliability (most reports contain special
tables for this purpose) before conclusions are drawn
regarding differences among population groups or
time periods. (See p. 4.)

The Current Population Survey vs. the
Decennial Census: Advantages and
Disadvantages
Each of the two main sources of minority group
data—the Current Population Survey and the decen­
nial census—have distinct advantages and disadvan­
tages in terms of the amount and availability of pub­
lished detail and overall usefulness in meeting data
needs.
The CPS strongest point is the fact that it produces
cu rren t econom ic statistics on a regular basis
(monthly, quarterly, and annual averages), some of
the most useful of which are published just a few
short weeks after data collection. This provides
users with a myriad of up-to-date historical labor
force series, many of which are published separately
for blacks and whites. CPS statistics on the black
population are generally available from 1954 to the




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Other Data Sources

selected reports from the Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare—the Office for Civil Rights,
the Social Security Administration, and the National
Center for Social Statistics; and Bureau of the Cen­
sus publications from the 1969 Census of Agriculture
and from a survey of minority business firms taken in
1969. Iii addition, entries are provided for the annu­
ally issued Statistical Abstract o f the United States ,
and for the County and City Data Book ; both are also
Census Bureau publications.

The listings in this directory also include a number
of data sources other than the 1970 census and recent
CPS publications. These consist of annual reports on
private industry employment, and biannual reports
on Federal Government employment prepared by
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
and the Civil Service Commission, respectively;




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Section I. Black Americans
Introduction

United States” (Series P-23, No. 48); two reports
from the 1970 Census of Population—General Social
and Econom ic Characteristics, United States
Summary” (Report P C (l)-C l), and “ N egro
Population” (Subject Report, PC(2)-1B); and BLS
Bulletin 1699, Black Americans: A Chartbook.
One who wants detailed data on blacks at the
national or regional level should find useful the
Census o f Population: 1970 “ Detailed Characteris­
tics, United States Summary” (PC(l)-Dl) and many
of the Subject Reports (Series PC (2)). In addition,
some of the United States summary reports from the
Census o f Housing: 1970 (HC (1)-A1, HC (1)-B1,
HC(2)-1) and Census of Housing: 1970. Subject Re­
ports (Series HC(7), Reports 1-8) contain selected
population characteristics. Many of the Series P-20
and P-60 Current Population Reports and BLS
Special Labor Force Reports also contain consider­
able detail at the national level.
Among the best sources for data at the State level
and below are the individual 1970 census State
reports of the PC(1) and HC(1) series; occasional
Subject Reports, particularly those on migration
(PC(2)-2A, B, C, D), and the report on group
quarters (PC(2)-4E); and the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission’s minority employment
reports.
Information on blacks for areas and places is
located primarily in the State reports indicated
above, the H C(2), M etropolitan Housing
Characteristics Reports, the PHC(l), Census Tracts
series, and the Census Employment Survey reports,
Series PHC(3). Some of the population Subject
Reports, particularly Nos. 4E, 9B, and 10B, have
data at lower than the State level.
M ost o f these publications also contain
comparable data for the total population and often
for persons of Spanish ancestry. In many cases there
are also comparable data for whites. Exceptions are
reports from the 1970 Census o f H ousing
(HC(1)-HC(7)), the Census Tracts reports (PHC(l)),
and a number of the Census o f Population: 1970,
Subject Reports (Series PC(2)) which have little or
no data on whites.
It should be kept in mind that except for areas

This section contains sources of statistical data on
Black Americans. It should be noted that the concept
of race as used in these data sources, does not denote
clear-cut scientific definitions of biological stock.
Rather it reflects self-identification by respondents
or a determination of race by an interviewer.
In some cases, persons who indicated race as
being other than Negro or black are included in black
population statistics. In the 1970 census, which re­
lied heavily upon mail-back questionnaires, persons
who had furnished such responses as African, col­
ored, Creole (in Louisiana only), Dominican, Ethio­
pian, H aitian, Jam aican, m ulatto, nonw hite,
Trinidadian, or West Indian, among others, were
counted as blacks. Persons other than Negroes or
blacks are also included in the “ Negro and other
races” classification of the Current Population Sur­
vey. This classification (formerly “ nonwhite” ) in­
cludes Negroes and all other “ nonwhite” races, in­
cluding American Indians, Japanese, Chinese,
Filipinos, etc. However, since blacks comprise
about 90 percent of the “ Negro and other races”
population, social and economic characteristics pre­
sented for this racial category generally reflect the
conditions of blacks.
There are numerous sources o f statistical
information on blacks. Almost all of the reports from
the 1970 decennial census, the P-20, P-23, and P-60,
series of Current Population Reports ; Special Labor
Force Reports', and Employment and Earnings,
among others, contain tabulations for Negro and
other races. Other statistical series occasionally
present information on blacks, such as the P-25,
P-27, and P-28, series of Current Population Reports,
and various BLS reports and bulletins.
For the user who wants convenient data sources
covering a wide range of social and economic
characteristics of black Americans at the national
level without a large amount of cross-classification
of subject items, there are four reports which fulfill
these requirements. These are the latest of the
Current Population Reports on the “ Social and
Economic Status of the Black Population in the




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Volume I (Series PC(1)), Characteristics of
the Population

which include large concentrations of minority
groups (some States and SMSA’s, many large cities,
and numerous inner city census tracts), the social
and economic characteristics of the total population
obtained from the 1970 census and the CPS generally
reflect those of whites, making comparisons by race
possible even when published data specifically for
whites are not available. This is also true of the
Census of Agriculture data.
Black d a ta sources published by the E qual
Employment Opportunity Commission, the Civil
Service Commission, and the Department of Health,
E d u c a tio n , and W elfare gen erally co n tain
comparable tabulations for the total population and
often for persons of Spanish ancestry.

S erie s P C (1)-B , “ G e n e ra l P o p u la tio n
C h a ra c te ris tic s “ . The “ General P o p u latio n

Characteristics” reports are based on a 100-percent
count from the 1970 census. These publications
p rese n t d ata on age, sex, m arital sta tu s, and
relationship to head of household. Information for
the black population is given for each SMSA,
u rb an iz ed a re a , c e n tra l c ity , c o u n ty , c o u n ty
subdivision, and place of 1,000 inhabitants or more
in h ab itan ts. A U nited S tates sum m ary rep o rt
contains statistics for the Nation and its regions as
well as summary information on States, areas, and
larger cities.
As in many of the 1970 census publications, the
degree of detail is directly related to the size of the
area covered. Statistics for the Nation and State are
presented with the greatest detail. For example, the
age distribution tables in the PC(1)-B reports has 89
separate age breaks for the States’ and Nation’s
black population. For SMSA’s, counties, and places
of 10,000 inhabitants or more, however, the age
distribution for the black population contains 37
items. For places of less than 10,000 inhabitants
there are no age distributions by race.

Reports from the Census of Population
and Housing: 1970
Census of Population: 1970, reports
The Census of Population is divided into two
volumes—Characteristics o f the Population (PC(1))
and Subject Reports (PC(2)). As mentioned in the
general introduction, Volume I of the Census o f
Population: 1970 contains four chapters. Chapter
“ A ” (“ Number of Inhabitants” ) has no data on
black s. C h a p te r “ B ” (“ G eneral P o p u latio n
Characteristics” ) contains a substantial amount of
statistics for blacks in the U.S. Summary and the
individual State reports, Numbers 1-52, as well as
the report on the Virgin Islands, Number 55. Data by
race were not collected for Puerto Rico, and outlying
areas other than the Virgin Islands. All chapters,
“ C” and “ D ” reports, other than those for Puerto
Rico, contain substantial black data, in almost all
tables.
Most of the data in these reports are presented so
as to be comparable to those for the total population,
as well as to data for the white population, in
instances where white data are presented.
Volume II consists of the 39 currently available
Subject reports—all but three containing data on the
b lack p o p u latio n (th o se th re e are c o n cern ed
exclusively with other minority groups). One report,
“ N egro P o p u la tio n ” (PC(2)-1B) is dev o ted
exclusively to the social, economic, and housing
characteristics of blacks, while many others devote
up to 50 percent of their content to the characteristics
of blacks. In fact, volume II has about as much space
allocated to statistics for blacks as to those for all
other individual races and ethnic groups combined.




S e rie s PC(1)-C , “ G e n e ra l S o c ia l a nd
Econom ic Characteristics” . The “ General Social

and Econom ic C haracteristics” reports present
sample data covering a wide range of subjects.
Among the social characteristics covered for the
black population are age; country of birth or
parentage; mother tongue; year moved into present
house, and residence in 1965; school enrollment,
years of school completed, and vocational training;
veteran status; family composition; and fertility.
Economic characteristics include labor force and
employment status; disability; weeks worked in
1969; work activity 5 years ago; place of work and
m eans of tra n sp o rta tio n to w ork; occupation,
industry, and class of w orker; earnings and income;
and poverty status.
Information on these subjects is presented in 51
State reports with data for the States, SMSA’s,
urbanized areas, central cities, and all places of
50.000 inhabitants or m ore. Sim ilar data w ith
substantially less detail are given for those places of
10.000 to 50,000 inhabitants and counties containing
400 blacks or more. A United States summary report
contains comparable data for the Nation and its reg­
ions.
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of all races from 24 separate countries or areas.
These characteristics, presented for broad age
groups and by sex, include relationship to head of
household, marital status, fertility, residence in
1965, years of school completed, mother tongue,
labor force participation and employment status,
occupation, class of worker, income of families and
unrelated individuals, and poverty status.

Series PC(1)-D, “ Detailed Characteristics” .

This series of reports presents data on the same
subject areas at the PC(1)-C General Social and
Economic Characteristics, but in greater detail and
with considerable cross-classification for the States
and larger SM SA ’s. F o r exam ple, the school
enrollment data for blacks at the State level in the
PC(1)-C reports include only nine age categories and
five grade-in-school breaks, by sex and type of
re sid e n c e .
H o w ev er,
in
the
“ D etailed
C h aracteristics” rep o rts, the statew ide school
e n ro llm en t tab les have each y ear of age
cross-classified with each grade in which enrolled,
by sex, and type of residence. Each of these reports
contains a total of eight tables on nativity, mother
tongue, citizenship and migration; five on education;
12 on marital status, household characteristics, and
fertility; 6 on labor force and employment status; 20
on occupation and industry; and 25 on income,
earnings, and poverty, in addition to those covering
other subject areas.
The geographic detail, however, is more limited
than is the case with the PC(1)-C reports. The
PC(1)-D reports generally present information on the
State and SMSA’s of 250,000 inhabitants or more (a
few exceptions cover SM SA ’s and cities with
100.000 or more); while the PC(1)-C series of reports
present general data for all SMSA’s, all counties, and
all cities as small as 2,500 inhabitants.
Virtually all tables contain data for the black
population on a statewide basis; but only those
metropolitan areas of 250,000 or more with at least
25.000 blacks (with a few exceptions) have data
covering the black population. A United States
summary report presents comparable data for the
Nation and its four geographic regions.

Report P C (2 yiB , ” Negro P opulation” . This
Subject Report presents general social, economic,
and housing characteristics of the black population
for the United States, regions, and the 21 States
having 250,000 blacks or more, the 34 standard
metropolitan statistical areas with 100,000 blacks or
more, and the 48 cities having 50,000 blacks or more.
Many of the data herein have previously been
included in the PC(1)-B (“ G eneral Population
Characteristics” ), PC(1)-C (“ General Social and
Economic C haracteristics” ), PC(1)-D (“ Detailed
Characteristics” ), and HC(1)-A (“ General Housing
C h a ra c te ris tic s ” ) se rie s o f re p o rts. “ N egro
Population,” however, is particularly useful in three
ways—(1) as a convenient one-volume source of
data which otherwise might require the user to
consult numerous publications; (2) with many tables
comparable in subject m atter and format to those in
the Census o f Population: 1960, Subject Reports
devoted to blacks and other races; and (3) with
comparability to other Census o f Population: 1970,
Subject Reports on other minority races and ethnic
groups (PC(2)-1C through 1G).
Among the social characteristics covered are
household relationship, m arital status, fertility,
presence and number of children, family size, place
of birth and residence in 1965, school enrollment,
and the educational attainment of persons and family
heads. Economic characteristics include labor force
status, and employment status of persons and wives
of family heads; occupation of employed persons
and family heads; industry of employed persons;
weeks worked by persons and family heads; hours
worked by family heads; num ber of earners in
families; income of persons and families; type of
income of families; and the incidence of poverty for
persons and families. Ten housing characteristics
also are presented: T enure, num ber of room s,
number of persons, persons per room, number of
units in structure, year structure built, selected
eq u ip m en t, autom obile av a ilab ility , value of
owner-occupied units, and amount of rent paid.

Volume II (Series PC(2)), Subject Reports
R e p o rt PC(2)-1A, “ N a tio n a l O rig in a nd
Language” . This report includes five tables with

statistics on the black population. Table 1 has counts
for blacks according to age, sex, and nativity (total,
native of native parentage, native of foreign or mixed
parentage, foreign born). Four other tables present
social and econom ic c h a ra c te ristic s for black
A m ericans of indigenous parentage, (about 98
percent of all blacks), for the United States and its
four regions, in format comparable to other data in
this publication on white Americans of indigenous
parentage, and persons of Spanish language, all
persons of foreign or mixed parentage, the foreign
born, and the first and second generation population




R e p o rts PC (2)-1C a n d 1E, “ P erson s o f

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employment status and occupation, family income,
and fertility. These five tables distinguish among
five-size classes of SMSA’s and between central
cities and suburban areas. Two additional tables
provide similar migration for black non-metropolitan
residents.
Statistics for 65 individual SM SA’s (having
500,000 inhabitants or more) are furnished in two
other tables; and a final group of tables contain
mobility information on the black residents of each
of six major cities.

Spanish O rig in ” and “ Puerto Ricans in the United
States” . Two tables in “Persons of Spanish Origin”

include counts of black persons of Spanish origin for
the United States, regions, geographic divisions, and
States; and counts at the national level according to
nativity status, and type of Spanish origin.
Counts of black persons of Puerto Rican birth or
parentage (covering the same areas as those in
“ Persons of Spanish Origin” ) are published in one
table of Puerto Ricans in the United States.”
Report PC(2)-2A, “ State o f B irth ” . Data on
black migration according to the region, division,
and State of birth and of 1970 residence are presented
in this report. Seven of the 14 tables present
tabulations by age and sex in varying degrees of
detail—the greatest detail being in two tables which
cross-tabulate sex and age of the population of each
State by division of birth; and sex and age of the
population born in each State by division of
residence in 1970. Also included are data for blacks
living in large SMSA’s according to each of the nine
geographic divisions of birth.

R e p o rt PC(2)-2D, “ L ife tim e a n d R e ce nt
M igration". This publication presents statistics on

birthplace, residence in 1965, and residence in 1970
for persons 5 years old and over. Six tables are at the
national level—four of them indicating migration
status o f the native and foreign born black
populations by age and sex, according to educational
attainment, occupation, family income, and type of
family. The other national level tables present
migration status of women by number of children
ever born and the migration status of children 8 -1 7
by their school enrollment status, relative progress
in school, and their father’s educational attainment.
Four additional tables present migration information
by census division and State.

Series (PC(2)-2B, "M o b ility for States and the
N a tio n ” . This report contains detailed cross­

tabulations dealing with the 1965 - 7 0 mobility of the
population. Data for blacks include mobility status,
and type of mobility (house, county, State, abroad)
by a number of population variables. The latter in­
clude single years of age,sex, marital status, house­
hold relationship, educational attainment, labor
force participation, employment status, occupation,
presence and number of children, earnings, income,
and the labor force participation and earnings of
wives. Selected housing characteristics also are pre­
sented.
Statistics also are provided for blacks according to
region of birth. Included are such characteristics as
age and sex, marital status, type of family, presence
and number of children, fertility, school enrollment
status and relative progress in school, educational
attainment, labor force participation, employment
status, occupation, income, and region of parents’
birth.

Report PC(2y2E, “ M igration Between State
Econom ic Areas". This report presents statistics on

the movement of persons 5 years old and over
between State economic areas (SEA)5during the
period 1965 to 1970. Information on the migration of
blacks is presented in two of its five tables. One of
these show s the number of inmigrants and
outmigrants according to age and sex for each SEA
having a black population of 25,000 inhabitants or
more in 1970. The other shows the number of
inmigrants 5 year old and over to each of these SEA
according to State of residence in 1965 and according
to whether 1965 residence was in a metropolitan or
nonmetropolitan SEA.
R eport PC(2y3A, “ Women by N um ber o f
Children Ever B orn ” . This report includes a large

Report PC(2)-2C, “ M o bility fo r M etropolitan
Areas” . Mobility for Metropolitan Areas presents

statistics on the movement of persons 5 years old and
over to, from, and within the standard metropolitan
statistical areas during the 5-year period 1965 to
1970. Five tables show such characteristics of black
movers as age and sex, educational attainment,




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number of detailed cross-tabulations of black women
by number of children ever born according to a broad
group of social and economic factors. These include
“State economic areas are subdivisions o f States, consisting of
single counties or groups o f counties that have similar social and
economic characteristics. The United States is divided into 510
such areas.

age; type of residence; race of husband according to
race of wife; region of birth, 1965 residence, and 1970
residence; 1965-70 interregional migration; marital
status, marital history, and household relationship;
and educational attainment. Also included are labor
force p a rtic ip a tio n , em ploym ent sta tu s, and
presence of work disability; occupation; income of
p erso n s and fam ilies; and se le c te d housing
characteristics. Some information is presented by
characteristics of husbands. Coverage is for the
United States and frequently for regions.
Separate tables provide fertility data for black
women living in low-income neighborhoods of 26
large cities and those living in group quarters.
Supplementary data on children ever born to single
women are also provided.

and sex; presence of parents, children, and other
relatives; marital history; type and size of family;
educational attainment; occupation; income of per­
sons and families, and income of the chief income
recipient. A separate table provides some data on
unrelated persons sharing living quarters and a por­
tion of another table presents data on persons in
group quarters.
Report PC(2y4C, “ M arital S tatus’’. Marital
Status presents considerable information on blacks
at the national level as well as some separate data on
those in the South and those living in urbanized
areas. In its 17 tables are detailed statistics on the
marital status of the black population 14 years old
and over by various marital history items, education,
occupation, and income in 1969. Data are shown also
for married couples cross-classified by age, race,
nativity and parentage, education, and income of
both husband and wife. There are also statistical data
on interm arriage which cross-tabulate race and
Spanish origin of wives by race and Spanish origin of
husbands.

ReportPC(2)-4A, “ Family C om position” . This
report presents detailed statistics on the composition
of families, for the United States and regions, by
urban and rural resid ence, cross-classified by
various social and economic characteristics.
Among the aspects of black family composition
presented in this publication are size of household,
size of family, type of family, presence and number
of own and related children by age, ages of oldest and
y o u ngest ch ild ren , p rese n c e o f ad u lt fam ily
members, presence of parents and grandchildren of
the family head, presence and characteristics of
subfamilies, number and type of nonrelatives of the
head sharing the housing unit, and presence of
nonworking adult women in families with young
children.
Some of the social characteristics by which black
families are described in this report include age and
sex of head, marital status of head, marital history of
head and wife, age at first marriage, year of first
marriage, the education of family members, and
residence in 1965. Economic characteristics include
employment status and hours worked by family head
and wife, occupation of head, weeks worked in 1969
and earnings of wife, and income of head and family
in 1969.

This report presents detailed marital history statis­
tics for persons 14 to 79 years old according to age at
first marriage. All data are presented by sex and age
at the time of the 1970 census. All tables contain data
for the United States, and most have tabulations for
urbanized areas. In addition, several tables present
data by region and type of residence, with one includ­
ing data by State.
Fifteen of this report’s 22 tables have tabulations
for black Americans. Among the characteristics of
blacks cross-tabulated with age at first marriage are:
year of first marriage, present marital status, how
first marriage ended if it did, number of times mar­
ried, educational attainment, occupation, income,
and earnings. Other tables present statistics for sub­
families, marriage rates, and number of single per­
sons.

R e p o rt PC (2)-4B , “ P e rso n s b y F a m ily
C h a r a c te r is tic s “ Persons by Family Characteris­

R eport PC(2)-4E, “ Persons in Institu tio ns
and Other Group Quarters’’. This report includes

tics” contains a considerable amount of detailed
statistics on persons according to household status,
family status, and martial status. All of its 15 tables
include data on black Americans for the United
States, and most of these present statistics sepa­
rately for persons living in urbanized areas. A por­
tion of the data also is tabulated by region.
Characteristics covered in this report include age

information on blacks who are inmates of institutions
and on the noninstitutional population living in other
group quarters. For inmates, statistics at the national
level are presented on age, sex, type of residence,
marital status, marital history, region of birth and
residence, school enrollment, educational attain­
ment, vocational training, previous occupation, type
of control of institution, and year moved into institu­




Report PC(2)-4D) “ Age at First Marriage”.

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tion. These data are presented separately for inmates
in each of eight types of institution.
In addition, there are some data for States, for
large SM SA’s, and for selected counties about
blacks in institutions, and a limited amount of na­
tional level data for blacks in noninstitutional group
quarters.

of the census and on weeks worked in 1969. Data on
the labor force participation and employment status
of black Americans are presented by sex, age, type
of residence, marital status, household relationship,
school enrollm ent, educational attainm ent, resi­
dence in 1965, hours worked, and presence of own
children. Data are provided for families according to
number of family members in labor force, earnings of
head, size and type of family , and type of residence.
There are several additional tables presenting infor­
mation on the labor force status and employment
status of black women, including number and age of
own children, children ever born, marital status, age,
type of residence, and earnings of husband.
Tables on weeks worked in 1969 provide data on
blacks according to many of the same characteristics
listed above. Many of the tables in this publication
provide considerable cross-classification and a few
contain selected data from previous censuses.

Report PC(2)-5A, “ S chool E nrollm ent ”. This
publication presents national and regional data on
school enrollment status, year of school in which
enrolled, and relative progress in school by age and
sex of blacks in 14 of its 17 detailed tables. Enroll­
m ent statistics are tabulated according to such
characteristics as type of residence, region of birth,
education of father and mother, occupation of par­
ents, family income, migration status of parents,
.marital status, labor force status, and number of
brothers and sisters, among others.
Two of the tables present statistics on characteris­
tics of those enrolled in college, including data on
living arrangements, and veteran status. Five tables
are devoted to information pertaining to persons, age
16 to 24, not enrolled in school. Most of the tables in
this report also present information for blacks living
in central cities of urbanized areas, urban fringe, and
rural areas.

Report PC(2)-6B, “ Persons Not Employed

Data on the characteristics of black persons not
employed (persons either not in the labor force or
those in the labor force but not employed) are
provided in most tables according to age, sex, and
year last worked. Subjects covered include type of
residence, household relationship, marital status,
presence and age of children, school enrollment and
educational attainment, labor force participation and
employment status, occupation, activity in 1965,
income other than earnings, and low-income status.
Statistics are provided at the national level only.

Report PC(2)-5B, “ Educational A ttainm ent ”
The educational attainment of the black population
according to age, sex, and type of residence is crosstabulated with several other characteristics in this
Subject Report . Among the social and economic
characteristics covered are region of birth and region
of residence, marital status, presence of young chil­
dren, labor force and employment status, occupa­
tion, and income.

Report PC(2)-6C, “ Persons with Work D/'sab i l i t y Characteristics of persons 18 to 64 years old

according to presence and length of work disability
are presented in the Subject Report . All but two of its
13 tables include data on blacks with work disability
according to age, sex, type of residence, marital
status, type of family, household relationship, re­
lated children under age 18, educational attainment,
vocational training, labor force and employment
status, occupation, work experience, earnings, and
source and amount of income . Many of the tables in
this report permit direct comparison of characteris­
tics of those with no, partial, or total work disability.

Report PC(2)-5C, “ Vocational Training’’. This
report presents detailed statistics on a nationwide
basis according to field of vocational training. Pub­
lished tables include data for blacks, by sex and often
by age, according to educational attainment, labor
force and employment status, occupation, industry,
and earnings. Comparable data are shown in each
table for persons who have never completed a voca­
tional training program.

Report PC(2)-6D, “ Journey to W o r k This is
the largest of the PC(2) Subject Reports, containing
more than 1,100 pages of statistical tables. The re­
port presents data for workers 16 years of age and
over, classified by place of residence and place of
work for large SMSA’s and their constituent parts.

Report PC(2y6A , “ Em ploym ent Status and
Work E x p e r ie n c e This report contains material on

labor force and employment status (number and per­
cent in labor force, civilian labor force, employed
and unemployed) as of the week preceding the taking




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furnished according to age, sex, and hours worked.

Social and economic characteristic data are pre­
sented only for the total population; however place
of residence cross-classified by place of work tabula­
tions are provided for black workers. These counts
are available for black workers living or working in
each of the 124 SMSA’s with 250,000 inhabitants or
more in 1970.

Report PC(2)-7C, “ O ccupation by Industry” .

This report presents national level statistics cross­
classifying occupation by industry of employed
workers. Three tables contain data by race—for the
total employed, for wage and salary workers, and for
the self-employed. Each table contains 102 occupa­
tional classification items for men and 65 for women,
for each of 55 industrial classification items.

R eport PC(2)-6E, “ Veterans’’. This Subject
Report contains information on the characteristics of
civilian male veterans, by age and period of service
(e.g., World War II, Vietnam era, etc.). Statistics
covering black veterans include data on living ar­
rangements, household and family characteristics,
marital status, years of school completed, labor
force participation, employment status, occupation,
weeks worked, class of worker, income and earn­
ings, geographic mobility, and selected housing
characteristics.

R eport PC(2)-7Dt “ G overnm ent W orkers” .

This report presents characteristics of persons who
worked in government jobs at the time of the 1970
census. Fifteen tables includes data by race and
Spanish origin. Information is provided for all gov­
ernment workers, and in most tables there are sepa­
rate tabulations for each level of government (Fed­
eral, State, local.) Among characteristics for blacks
are sex and age, occupation, industry, weeks and
hours worked, earnings, family income, and educa­
tional attainment. Several of the tables contain con­
siderable cross-classification of these characteris­
tics.

Report PC(2y7A “ O ccupational Characteris­
tic s ’ ’. “ O ccupational C haracteristics” provides

statistics for blacks according to detailed occupation
(up to 441 separate occupational categories). For the
ex p erien ced labor fo rce, occu p atio n is crosstabulated by age and sex, residence in 1965, type of
residence, marital status, school enrollment, educa­
tional attainm ent, weeks worked in 1969, hours
worked in the week preceding the taking of the cen­
sus, earnings, family income, and poverty status.
Characteristics of the employed by occupation in­
clude age and sex, class of w orker, and hours
worked.
All data are presented at the national level only.

R eport PC(2)-7E, “ O ccupation and Resi­
dence in 1965’’. Although most of the data in this

report apply only to the total population, five tables
include information on the occupational and indus­
trial mobility of blacks. Two tables include cross­
classification of occupation in 1970 by occupation in
1965, and age; two other tables present similar in­
formation on industry in 1970 according to industry
in 1965. Another table indicates whether both indus­
try and occupational status were the same in 1970 as
in 1965, by sex. Inform ation on the residential mobil­
ity of blacks appears in other Subject R eports ,
primarily number 2B, “ Mobility for States and the
N ation.”

R eport PC(2)-7B, “ In d u stria l Characteris­
tic s ” . “ Industrial Characteristics” presents data on

black persons, by sex, for the experienced labor
force and the employed according to current or last
industry attachment. Information is provided for 227
separate industries in some tables and 87 in others.
Among characteristics of the experienced labor
force cross-classified by industry are age, educa­
tional attainment, type of residence, residence in
1965, weeks worked in 1969, hours worked during
the week preceding the taking of the census, total
earnings, wage and salary earnings, and family in­
come. Statistics for employed blacks include age,
class of worker, and hours worked.
Separate tables provide m any of these same
characteristics for the experienced labor force by
class of worker and whether employed in agricul­
ture. For the employed, class of worker statistics are




R eport PC(2)-7F, “ O ccupation o f Persons
with High E arnings” . “ Occupation of Persons with

High E arnings” contains two tables, including
statistics on blacks with 1969 earnings of $15,000 or
m ore. D ata are presented for the experienced
civilian labor force according to detailed occupation,
sex, and seven levels of earnings.
Report PC(2)-8A, “ Sources and Structure of
Fam ily In c o m e ” . This report provides detailed

cross-classifications of data on the income in 1969 of
family members, unrelated individuals and persons
in the experienced civilian labor force, according to
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given on such social and economic characteristics of
the black population as age, sex, type of residence,
size of place of residence, place of birth, 1965
residence, family status, type of family, marital
status, presence and age of related children, fertility,
veteran statu s, school enrollm ent and relative
p ro g re ss in sch o o l, e d u c atio n a l a tta in m e n t,
v o cational training, labor force p articip atio n ,
employment status, occupation, class of worker,
presence of work disability, weeks worked in 1969,
place of work and means of transportation to work,
earnings, number of earners in family, and level and
sources of income.
Separate tables present data on the potentially
poor—including those whose earnings alone would
not be sufficient to bring his or her family above the
low-income level, and those families which would
fall below that level if social security or public
assistance income were rem oved. A final table
presents selected housing characteristics according
to low-income status. All tables contain data at the
national level only.

various social and economic characteristics, for the
United States, by type of residence. All tables but
one contain data on black Am ericans including
income distribution, and median or mean income or
both. A number of tables, the number of persons or
families with income less than the poverty level,
cross-classified by characteristics is also given.
Data are provided according to age, type and size
of family, educational attainm ent, various other
social c h a ra c te ris tic s , num ber o f e a rn e rs,
occupation, and type of income.
Report PC(2)-8B, “ Earnings by Occupation
and E ducation” . Nine tables in this report provide

1969 earnings data for blacks according to age, sex,
reg io n , o c c u p a tio n , w ork e x p e rie n c e , and
education. Data are provided for five age groups, six
levels of education, and up to 37 occupational groups
for blacks with work experience in 1969 and for those
who worked 5 0-52 weeks that year.
R e p o rt PC(2)-8C, " In c o m e o f the Farm
Related P op u la tion ’’. This report presents statistics

pertaining to farm income as measured by farm
self-employment income, and value of farm products
sold. Statistics for the black population are shown
for the United States and for States with 5,000 black
fam ilies or m ore having farm self-em ploym ent
income.
Farm self-em ploym ent incom e is tabulated
according to the total incom e of fam ilies and
unrelated individuals; several family composition
item s; school e n ro llm en t sta tu s; e d u c atio n a l
attainment of family heads and persons over age 14;
employment status, occupation, and weeks worked
of family heads; wives, and all persons 14 years old
and over; number of earners in families; source and
amount of income for families and persons 14 years
old and over; and the wage and salary income of
wives. Many of these same data and selected housing
characteristics are presented according to value of
farm products sold by rural farm households.
All tab les include s ta tis tic s for the black
population of Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia, while some of the tables
include inform ation on five additional Southern
States.

R e p o rt PC(2)-9B, ‘ ‘L o w -In co m e Areas in
Large C ities” . “ Low-income Areas in Large Cities”

contains data for the 50 largest cities (individually
and combined) and the four largest boroughs in New
York City. Data for blacks include counts of those
living in the city and six aggregates of census tracts
within the city according to the percent of persons
below the poverty level in 1969.
The bulk of the data on blacks consists of the
presentation of characteristics for the entire city,
those areas with census tracts with a poverty rate of
20 percent or more, and the remainder of the city.
These characteristics include age, sex, place of birth,
residence in 1965, relationship to household head,
family status, presence and living arrangements of
children, size of family, fertility, school enrollment,
years of school completed, labor force participation,
employment status, occupation, place of work and
means of transportation to work, income, type of
income, difference between income and poverty
level, ratio of income to poverty level, and selected
housing items.
S im ilar d a ta on b lack s living in in d ividual
low-income neighborhoods of 49 of these cities have
been subsequently published in the Supplementary
Reports series, PC(Sl)-65 through 103. A list of these
cities appear under the listings for Supplementary

Report PC(2y9A, “ Low-Incom e P opulation” .
“ L ow -Incom e P opulation” presents num erous
cross-classifications of data for persons and families
by amount of income and incidence of income below
the low-income (proverty) level. Inform ation is




Reports.
R e p o rt P C (2)-10A,

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‘ ‘A m e ric a n s

L iv in g

limited data on blacks according to city block (III),
changes in the housing inv en to ry (IV ), hom e
financing (V), and housing quality (VI).

A b r o a d This Subject Report presents counts, by

age and sex, of black Americans living outside the
United States, except those in the Armed Forces and
those tem porarily abroad on vacation, business
trips, etc. Separate data are provided for Federal
G overnm ent civilian em ployees, dependents of
m em bers of the Arm ed F orces, dependents of
Federal civilian em ployees, crew s of m erchant
vessels, and other United States citizens living
abroad. Most of these data are presented by country
or major area of residence.

Volume I. Housing Characteristics for
States, Cities, and Counties
Volume I consists of two series of reports, Chapter
A (S eries
H C (l)-A )
“ G en eral H ousing
Characteristics” and Chapter B (Series HC(l)-B)
“ Detailed Housing C haracteristics.” These two
series contain selected housing data for households
in States, SMSA’s, urbanized areas, places of 50,000
inhabitants or more, and counties and places of 1,000
to 50,000 with 400 or more blacks. The United
States summary reports of each chapter provide data
at the national and regional levels and lim ited
summary data for individual States, areas, and
places.
The coverage of the chapter A reports is limited to
tenure; kitchen facilities; plumbing facilities; units in
structure; number of rooms, persons, and persons
per room; telephone availability; and value and rent.
The “ Detailed Housing C haracteristics” report
include the items cited above and a large number of
additional characteristics. A detailed listing of these
items is located in table B-3.

Report PC(2)-10B, " State Econom ic A reas”.
This report includes statistics on the general social
and econom ic c h a ra c te ris tic s o f the black
inhabitants of the 510 State economic areas into
which the United States is divided. State economic
areas (SEA’s) are subdivisions of States, consisting
of single counties or groups of counties having
similar social and economic characteristics. The data
fo r S E A ’s in this re p o rt are e sse n tia lly
consolidations of selected tabulations previously
published in the PC(1)-C series of reports for the 50
States and the District of Columbia.
Among the characteristics covered in this report
are age, sex, household relationship, fertility and
p re se n c e o f c h ild ren , school en ro llm en t and
educational attainment, labor force and employment
sta tu s, o ccu p atio n and in d u stry of em ployed
workers, source and level of income, and incidence
of poverty.

Volume II (Series HC(2)), Metropolitan
Housing Characteristics
This series of reports consists of one report for
each of the 247 standard metropolitan statistical
areas recognized in the 1970 census as well as a
summary report for the United States and regions.
T hese re p o rts c o n ta in a d d itio n a l detail and
c ro ss-c la ssific a tio n of d a ta on m any of the
characteristics found in the H C (l)-A and HC(1)-B
publications as well as on family income and type of
family.
Information is given for black occupied housing
for each SMSA, central city, and other place of
50,000 inhabitants or more; provided the areas or
place has a black population of 25,000 or more. The
United States summary report presents data for the
U nited States and each of the four geographic
regions, according to metropolitan-nonmetropolitan
residence and residence in central cities.

Census of Housing: 1970, reports
The 1970 census of Housing published reports
are divided into seven volumes, of which volumes I,
II, and VII contain detailed information on black
occupied housing. The other four volumes contain
occasional black data. Volum e I contains two
chapters—both with large amounts of data on blacks
in the United States summary and the individual
State reports (Nos. 1-52), as well in the report on the
Virgin Islands (No. 55). Volume II, a series of 248
SMSA rep o rts and a U nited States sum m ary,
presents detailed housing statistics for blacks at the
national and regional levels, and for individual
SMSA’s and large cities having 25,000 blacks or
more. Volume VII is a series of nine housing subject
reports, seven of which provide statistics on black
households and their housing. These seven reports
contain statistics for blacks according to particular
subjects.
The remaining volume (III through VI) provide




Volume III (Series HC(3)), Block Statistics
The HC(3 ) Block Statistics reports are a series of
278 publications presenting housing data for each
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city block within 236 urbanized areas, and in selected
smaller cities and counties which contracted with the
Bureau of the Census to provide such statistics. For
each census tract (in tracted areas) and block, these
rep o rts show the N egro as a p ercen t of total
population and the percent of owner-occupied and
renter-occupied units whose heads of household are
black.

black ow ned housing located elsew here in the
volume.
Volume VI (Series HC(6», Plumbing
Facilities and Estimates of Dilapidated
Housing
This volume contains counts of housing units
lacking some or all plumbing facilities and estimates
of dilapidated units with all plumbing facilities. The
sum o f th e tw o item s p ro v id e an in d ia to r o f
substandard housing units. Data for such housing
occupied by blacks include tabulations for the
N ation, regions, States, S M S /\’s, m etropolitan
counties, central cities, and other places of 50,000
inhabitants or more. All statistics are presented
according to tenure; and national, regional, and State
data are shown also according to type of residence.

Volume IV (Series HC(4)), Components of
Inventory Change
This series of 16 reports presents statistics on the
characteristics of the components of change in the
housing inventory for the period 1960 to 1970, and on
the characteristics of units occupied by “ recent”
movers (moved in 1969 or later). Covered are 15
large sta n d a rd m etro p o lita n s ta tis tic a l areas
(SMSA’s) their major cities, and suburban areas. A
United States summary report presents statistics, by
region, for all SMSA’s, all central cities combined,
all su b u rb a n a re a s co m b in ed , and all
non-metropolitan area.
F o r b lack o c c u p ie d h ousing the follow ing
characteristics are presented according to tenure
(owner or renter): the number of units occupied in
1960 and 1970; the number of new units created since
1960 and the number of units removed since 1960;
race of occupants in 1970 by race in 1960; presence of
plumbing facilities and condition of unit by race in
1970, according to race of occupant in 1960; and
value o r rent and race in 1970 according to value or
rent and race in 1960.

Volume VII (Series HC(7)), Subject Reports
The Census o f Housing: 1970 Subject Reports are
nine p u b licatio n s w hich p re se n t s ta tistic s on
particular housing topics. Seven of these contain a
large number of housing characteristic items and
occasional population items for households headed
by blacks. These seven reports are:
HC(7)-1. “ H ousing C haracteristics by H ousehold
Composition”
HC(7>2. “ Housing of Senior Citizens”
HC(7)-3. “ Space Utilization of the Housing Inventory”
HC(7)-4. “ Structural Characteristics of the Housing Inven­
tory”
HC(7)-5. “ Mover Households”
HC(7)-6. “ Mobile Homes”
HC(7)-7. “ Geographic Aspects o f the Housing Inventory”

Volume V (Series HC(5», Residential
Finance

Each report presents data at the national level, and
m ost include tabulations according to type of
residence and/or region. Report two includes some
tabulations at the State and area levels. One or more
of th e se re p o rts in clu d es such p o p u latio n
characteristics as number of persons in household,
age, sex, education, m arital status, labor force
s ta tu s , o c c u p a tio n , in d u stry , v e te ra n s ta tu s ,
residence in 1965, and income of household head;
included also are number of children and presence of
ch ild ren u n d e r sp ecified ages, p re se n c e of
nonrelatives and of persons over specified ages; and
income of families and primary individuals.
Information regarding the availability of any of
these population characteristics as well as any of
numerous housing items in individual reports can be
found in appendix B of this directory.

This volume is a single report presenting statistical
sum m aries of data collected in the Residential
Finance survey conducted in 1971 as part of the 1970
Census of Housing program. Detailed information is
shown on the financing of homeowner and rental
properties, including characteristics of mortgages,
properties, and homeowners. Homeowner data for
blacks include age, sex, veteran status, number of
persons in household and income, as well as the
same financial and property characteristic items
which are shown for all housing units. These data are
contained in a separate section on black owned
housing (p. 363-69.) Charts at the front and back of
this publication provide quick means of locating
mortgage, property, and other characteristics of




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Joint population-housing reports

areas, and central cities. The statistics are drawn
largely from 1970 census advance reports, which
have been superceded and are no longer available.
Statistical information pn blacks include population
c o u n ts, ch anges b etw een 1960 and 1970,
components of population change, rate of natural
increase, and counts of owner and renter occupied
housing un its. U nlike o th e r re p o rts from the
decennial cen su s, the PH C(2) series contains
detailed discussions of findings. Additional data on
the subjects covered appear in the PC(1)-B and
HC(1)-A series.

The joint population-housing (PHC) publications
consist of three series of reports containing both
population and housing data. Series PH C(l) presents
information for blacks living in individual SMSA’s,
central cities, metropolitan counties, and census
tracts with 400 blacks or more. Series PHC(2) is a set
of State reports and a United States summary report
presenting 1960-70 com parative data on black
population, housing and components of population
change. The PHC(3) publications are a series of 76
re p o rts on se lected low -incom e a re a s, w hich
contains detailed statistics on em ploym ent and
earnings in ad d ition to lim ited data on o th er
population and housing characteristics.

Series PHC(3), Employment Profiles of
Selected Low-Income Areas
This series of 76 reports covers 68 selected
low-income areas. Sixty are in 51 cities, and eight are
rural areas. In addition, there are eight summary
reports including a United States summary for the
urban areas. The material in this series is not from
the April, 1970 decennial census itself, but from the
C ensus Em ploym ent Survey (CES) conducted
between August 1970 and March 1971. The CES,
however, is part of the overall program of the 1970
Census of Population and Housing. Statistical data
on blacks are published for all but one of the urban
areas, and for three rural areas.
All tables present data, by sex (in the cases of
fam ilies, by sex o f head ), fo r the civilian
noninstitutional population 16 years or older, and the
detailed tables contain many cross-classifications by
age, education, and other characteristics.
Among the characteristics covered in the tables
are: age; m arital and family status; num ber of
p e rso n s, ch ild ren , and e a rn e rs in fam ilies;
educational attainment and job training; labor force
and em ploym ent sta tu s, and e x te n t of
unem ploym ent; occupation and industry; work
h istory; hourly, w eekly, and annual earnings;
sources and structure of family income, and extent of
poverty; place of work, and methods and cost of
transportation; desire for work and reasons for not
seeking work; reason for leaving last job; job seeking
m ethods; low est acceptable pay; expenses for
mortgage, rent, and utilities; installment debt; and
residental mobility.

Series PHC(1), Census Tracts
This series of 241 rep o rts contains data on
population and housing characteristics for SMSA’s,
central cities, places of 25,000 or more, metropolitan
counties and census tracts. In addition, some of the
reports contain data for tracted areas lying outside
SMSA’s. Counts of the black population are given
for all tracts; however, characteristics listed below
are presented only for tracts having 400 blacks or
more. Population item s included are age, sex,
household relationship, school enrollm ent and
ed u c atio n a l a tta in m e n t, resid e n ce in 1965,
em ploym ent sta tu s, o cc u p atio n , incom e, and
poverty status. Housing data include ownership
status', plumbing facilities rooms, persons, persons
per room, value and rent, number of housing units in
structure, year structure was built, year moved in,
selected equipment, and automobile availability.
This series does not include a U nited States
summary report; however, a report in the PC(S1)
Series, Supplementary Reports, “ Population and
Housing Characteristics for the United States, by
State; 1970,” presents State and national data with
the same table format as the census tract reports.
The tables in this report thus provide a convenient
m eans for u se rs o f the tra c t d a ta to m ake
comparisons with national and State data on the
same subjects.
Series PHC(2), G eneral Demographic
Trends for Metropolitan Areas, 1960 to
1970

Supplementary Reports
Series PC(S1), population Supplementary
Reports

This series of reports provides data on the black
population for the N ation, States, m etropolitan




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Supplementary Reports are two open-ended series
of reports on individual subjects from the 1970 Cen­
sus. Population census Supplementary Reports are
designated as the PC(S1) series \and such reports
from the housing census are designated HC(S1).
Most reports are reproductions of one or more tables
or parts of tables printed in larger final report publi­
cations. A few of these reports were published in
advance of the release of the final reports containing
the same data. Supplementary Reports present data
in a more accessible and useful form for the con­
sumer.
A few such reports of the PC(S1) series, however,
contain data not found in other reports or furnish
corrections of previously published data found to be
in error. Some of the Supplementary Reports in the
PC(S1) series with data pertaining to blacks are listed
below:

Reports Nos. 65-103, Low-Incom e Neigh­
borhoods in Large C ities” . These 39 publications

contain data on individual low-income neighbor­
hoods in 49 or the N ation’s 50 largest cities. Lowincome neighborhoods are subdivisions of lowincome areas, which include all census tracts in
which 20 percent or more of all persons were below
the low-income level in 1969. These low-income
neighborhoods generally consist of contiguous cen­
sus tracts having a combined population of 20,000 or
more. The neighborhood boundaries are based on
current social and economic data and on the recom­
mendations of local agencies.
Characteristic items on the social, economic, and
housing conditions of the black residents of the
nieghborhoods covered in these Reports are similar
to those published in Subject Report, PC(2)-9B, for
the entire city, the entire low-income area, and the
balance of the city. (See p. 14 of this directory.)

Report No. 2. “ Negro Population in Selected
Places and Selected Counties.” This report con­

PC(S1) Reports on low-income
neighborhoods in large cities1

tains counts of the black population in places and
counties of 25,000 inhabitants or more having a black
population of 10,000 or more.
Report No. 17. “ P opulation of SMSA’s Estab­
lish e d Since the 1970 Census, fo r the United
States: 1970 and I9 6 0 .” Counts of the black popula­

tion in each of 21 new SMSA’s established between
November 1971, and January 1972, are provided in
this publication.
R eport No. 29. “ P op u la tion and H ousing
Characteristics fo r the United States, by State:
1970.” Data for blacks for the United States and

each of the States are provided in a format compara­
ble to the presentation of population and housing
subjects in the PHC (1) series, Census Tracts ,
reports.
R eport No. 47. “ C haracteristics of Negro
Im m ig ra n ts to S e lecte d M e tro p o lita n A reas:
1970.” The tables in this report show birthplace and

residence in 1965 for the black population in six
SM SA’s which contained a central city having
500,000 black inhabitants or more at the time of the
1970 census.
R e p o rt No. 53. “ R e sid e n ce in 1965 fo r
Selected Areas.” This report presents corrected

data on residence in 1965 for 48 SMSA’s. Its contents
replace com parable figures in the 48 individual
PH C(l) Census Tracts reports for the designated
SMSA’s, most of which are in the New England
States.




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Report
number
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99

Cities
Atlanta, Ga.
Baltimore, Md.
Birmingham, Ala.
Boston, Mass.
Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y.
Chicago, 111.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex.
Denver, Colo.
Detroit, Mich.
El Paso, Tex.
Houston, Tex.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla.
Kansas City, Mo.
Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif.
Louisville, Ky.
Memphis and Nashville-Davidson, Tenn.
Miami, Fla.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.
Newark, N.J.
New Orleans, La.
New York, N.Y.
Norfolk, Va.
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla.
Omaha, Nebr.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Portland, Oreg.
St. Louis, Mo.
San Antonio, Tex.

PC(S1) R ep o rts on low -in com e n eigh borh oods in large
cities 1-Continued

lished with more detail and with cross-classification
of characteristic items in Em ployment and Earnings.
There are currently 40 E&E tables which provide
these monthly household data, of which 13 present
information on the Negro and other races popula­
tion. Among these 13 tables are such characteristic
items as age, sex, marital status, labor force partici­
pation, employment status, duration of and reason
for unemployment, job-search method, full-time and
part-time work status, and occupation.
The January issue each year also contains annual
average tabulations for the previous year; while the
January, April, July, and October issues also present
quarterly data. A current listing of the monthly data
tables with coverage of the black population appears
below.

Report
number
Cities
100
San Diego and San Jose, Calif.
101
San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.
102
Seattle, Wash.
103
Washington, D.C.
xNo low-income neighborhoods were defined within the lowincome area of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Reports from the Current Population
Survey
Most of the Social and Economic data on black
Americans available from the Current Population
Survey appears in three major publication series.
These ar q Employment and Earnings , Special Labor
Force Reports, and Current Population Reports .
Employment and Earnings published by the Bureau
of Labor Statistics, is a monthly periodical which
includes data from the basic CPS questionnaire on
labor force and employment characteristics of the
population 16 years and over. Special Labor Force
Reports, also produced by BLS, present some data
from the basic questionnaire, but are usually con­
cerned with topics covered in the CPS supplemental
questionnaires. Current Population Reports, issued
by the Bureau of the Census, also rely predominantly
on supplemental items from the Survey. Other publi­
cations presenting CPS data include the BLS annual
Handbook o f Labor Statistics, the Monthly Labor
Review, various BLS Reports and Bulletins, the
statistical appendix to the annual Manpower Report
o f the President, and a Department of Agriculture
annual release on the hired farm working force.

Table
no.
A-3
A-4
A-5
A-6
A-7
A-9
A -12
A -14
A -17
A-21
A-27

Data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics

A-29
A-33

Employment and Earnings

Employment status of the noninstitutional population
by sex, age, and color
Labor force by sex, age, and color*
Employment status of persons 16-21 years of age in the
noninstitutional population by color and sex
Employment of the noninstitutional population 16 years
and over by sex, age, and color
Full- and part-time status of the civilian labor force by
color, sex, and age
Unemployed persons by marital status, sex, age, and
color
Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment,
sex, age, and color
Unemployed jobseekers by the jobsearch methods
used, sex, age, and color
Unemployed persons by duration, sex, age, color, and
marital status
Employed persons by major occupational group, sex,
and color
Persons at work in nonagricultural industries by full-or
part-time status, sex, age, color, and martial status
Employment status of 14-15 year-olds by sex and color
Employment status by color, sex, and age, seasonally
adjusted.

Monthly Labor Review

Employment and Earnings (E&E), published each
month, is the primary source of labor force data
based on the standard questions in the monthly Cur­
rent Population Survey schedule. Information on
labor force and employment characteristics of the
population 16 years old and over (as of the week
containing the 12th) is collected during the week
containing the 19th by the Bureau of the Census for
the Bureau of Labor Statistics. These data are pub­
lished in summary form and with analysis in The
Employment Situation, a BLS press release gener­
ally made available on the first Friday of the follow­
ing month. Later in the month, these data are pub­




Title

This periodical presents CPS inform ation on
blacks on an intermittent basis in a number of articles
which analyze economic statistics; these are later
reprinted (with appended tables in most cases) as
part of the Special Labor Force Reports series. In
Addition, there are other occasional articles (using
CPS and other source data) pertaining to the charac­
teristics of black Americans. Two tables in its cur­
rent labor statistics section contain limited employ­
ment data for blacks.
An annual index of MLR articles, authors, and
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book reviews is published in each December issue. A
consolidated index to MLR material for the January
1961 -D ecem ber 1970 period has been issued as BLS
Bulletin 1746, M onthly Labor Review , Index o f Vol­
umes 84-93.

blacks holding two or more jobs in May 1972 and
May 1973. Information on multiple jobholding is col­
lected each May as part of a set of supplemental
questions to the Current Population Survey. Data for
“ Negro and other races” include counts of the total
employed, the number holding two or more jobs, the
multiple jobholding rate, and the number of hours
worked at secondary jobs. These tabulations are
provided, by sex, for each of the 2 years. Special
Labor Force Report No. 139 has similar data for May
1970 and 1971, and Report 123 has data for May 1969.

Special Labor Force Reports
These reports are usually based on data collected
as su pplem entary q u estio n s to the basic CPS
schedule. Some reports, however, use data from the
regular monthly schedule. Special Labor Force Re­
ports cover such topics as educational attainment,
work experience, marital and family characteristics,
usual weekly earnings, working mothers, school-age
youth, and o ther subject areas relating to the
working-age population. Many of the topics covered
are analyzed annually; others appear on an irregular
or on a one-time basis. Data cited for blacks usually
are published as “ Negro and other races.” In some
text tables and in the reports on working mothers,
the tabulations are for blacks exclusive of “ other
races.”
Information from these supplements usually is
published in three stages—each stage, in most cases,
with increasing statistical detail. The first stage is the
publication of Summary—Special Labor Force Re­
port. Such summaries contain preliminary data ac­
companied by a brief discussion of findings. These
are similar to the advance reports issued by the
Bureau of the Census for its Current Population Re­
ports. Additional information is subsequently pub­
lished as an article or research summary in the
Monthly Labor Review (MLR). The MLR presenta­
tion usually includes a more thorough analysis and
frequently additional statistical data. Finally the
MLR material is reprinted and appended with a set of
tables containing detailed cross-classification of
characteristic items. This three stage publication
process permits both the summary dissemination of
current data and the issuence of detailed tables and
analytical text, which require substantially more
preparation time.
The listings below include the latest numbered
report issued on each subject area analyzed since
1970 in which data are presented for blacks. In cases
for which summaries or MLR presentations with
more recent data (than in the latest numbered report)
have been released, their publication is cited under
the latest numbered report.

R e p o rt No. 165, “ C h ild re n o f W o rkin g
Mothers, March 1973”. This is the third Special

Labor Force Report issued since 1971 with detailed
information on working women and their children. It
contains two detailed tables with statistics on black
children under 18 and on families headed by blacks in
a six-way cross-classification of the following
characteristics: age of children, type of family, labor
force p a rtic ip a tio n of w ives in h u sband-w ife
families, labor force participation and employment
status of family heads, and family income. Five text
tables include some of these same characteristic
items with considerably less cross-classification and
such additional items as number of children in the
family, weeks worked and whether on part-time or
full-time schedules in 1972 for family heads and
wives, and reason for part-year work or for not work­
ing at all in 1972. Some of these statistics are availa­
ble for March 1972 and March 1970 in Special Labor
Force Reports Nos. 154 and 134, respectively.
Report No. 164, “ M arital and Fam ily Charac­
teristics o f the Labor Force in March 1973”. This

report presents information on labor force participa­
tion, employment status and other economic items
according to various marital and family characteris­
tics. Two of the six text tables and 13 of the 26
supplementary tables contain material on the Negro
and other races population. Characteristic items in­
clude age, sex, type of residence, region, type of
family, family status, marital status, presence and
age of children, labor force participation of family
heads and other family m em bers, em ploym ent
status, work experience, broad occupational group,
and several income items (family income, income of
husbands, and earnings of married women as a per­
cent of total family income).
This report, which uses March 1973 CPS data, is
the fifteenth in a series on marital and family charac­
teristics. Data for March 1972, 1971, and 1970 can be
found in Special Labor Force Reports 153, 144, and

Report No. 166, “ M ultiple Jobholding in 1972
and 1973” . This report contains limited statistics for




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130, respectively. Limited data from the March 1974
Current Population Survey have been recently re­
leased in Sum m ary-Special Labor Force Report,
“ Marital and Family Characteristics of Workers,
March 1974.”

1970 are available in SLFR No. 141. Some of the
other Special L abor Force R eports with work
experience data by race include Nos. 107, 115, and
127.
More recent data (from the March 1974 CPS) have
been published in Summary — Special Labor Force
Report, “ Work Experience of the Population in
1973.” This release contains tw o tables w ith
information on the work experience and the extent of
unemployment of blacks in 1973.

Report No. 163, “ Changes in the Employ­
ment Situation in 1973” . This report is a review of

1973 developments in the labor market published in
the M onthly Labor Review. The Monthly Labor R e­
view a rticle w ith annual average tab les from
January’s Em ployment and Earnings is usually re­
printed and published about two months later as a
Special Labor Force Report.
Among the characteristics covered for the Negro
and other races population are labor force and
employment status, the full-time and part-time status
of the labor force, marital status, unemployment by
reason and duration, job search methods used by the
unem p lo y ed ,
rea so n s
for
lab o r
force
nonparticipation, and work experience and desire
for work by those not in the labor force. Most of
these items are tabulated by age and sex.
Similar data for recent years can be found in Re­
ports 152, 142, 129, and 116 on an annual average
basis, and in E m ploym ent and Earnings on a
monthly basis. Historical series for some of these
items (1954-73) are published in the statistical ap­
pendix to the Manpower Report o f the President and
in the Handbook o f Labor Statistics.

Report No. 161, “ Educational Attainm ent of
Workers, March 1973” . This educational attainment

report is the eleventh in a series of Special Labor
Force Reports presenting the relationship between
years of school com pleted and labor force and
employment characteristics. One of the four text
tables (appearing in the January 1974 M onthly Labor
Review article) and 7 of the 15 supplementary tables
include statistical data on the black population.
These tables cross-tabulate educational attainment
by age, sex, labor force participation, employment
status, duration of unemployment, occupation, and
in d u stry . Sim ilar d a ta for M arch 1972, 1971,
1969-70, and 1968 appear in SLFR ’s 148, 140, 125,
and 103, respectively.
Report No. 159, “ Going Back to School at
35” . This report has very limited data on the Negro

and other races population 35 years old and over.
Information is presented on the type of school at­
tended and labor force participation according to
type of school attended.

Report No. 162, “ Work Experience of the
P opulation in 1972” . “ W ork Experience of the

Population in 1972” contains numerous tables with
detailed information on the work experience of the
black labor force. Two of the seven text tables of the
F e b ru ary 1974 M onthly L a b o r R eview article
presents the proportion of the black population with
work experience in the 1967—72 period according to
age and sex, and some additional information on
married women according to presence and age of
children.
There are two sets of 27 Special Labor Force
Report supplementary tables—for 1972 and for 1971
work experience data. Fifteen of the tables for each
year provide considerable cross-classification of
data on blacks. Characteristic items include age, sex,
marital status, number of weeks in the labor force,
major activity, number of spells of unemployment,
duration of unemployment, full-time or part-time
employment, weeks worked, reason for part-year
work, reason for not working at all, occupation, and
industry. Data on the work experience of blacks in




Report No. 158, “ Employment o f School Age
Youth: October 1972” . The data in this report relate

to persons 16 to 24 years old, with an emphasis on
those aged 16 to 21. The Monthly Labor Review
article (September 1973) contains few statistics on
black youth; however, several of the 12 Special
Labor Force Report supplementary tables include
data on blacks according to school enrollment status.
The characteristics covered (all by sex, and some by
age) include labor force and employment status; oc­
cupation of the employed and the unemployed with
work experience; industry; and the duration of and
reasons for unemployment.
Comparable reports for October of earlier years
are available in previous Special Labor Force R e­
ports, including Nos. 147, 135, 124, and 111. Similar
data are available for blacks according to high school
graduation status in Special Labor Force Report 155,
“ E m ploym ent o f High School G raduates and
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D ropouts,” and in earlier reports.

seeking m ethods—public em ploym ent agencies,
private employment agencies, direct contact with
employers, placed or answered ads, friends or rela­
tives, and others.
These data, based on the regular CPS schedule,
are collected monthly. Selected job search data for
blacks (Negro and other races) are published in table
A-14 of Employment and Earnings.
Information on the job seeking activity of blacks
during 1972, based on a one-time comprehensive
supplement to the CPS in January 1973, have been
published in Sum m ary-Special Labor Force Report,
“ Job Finding Survey, January 1973.” This recent
release provides information on 20 different job
search methods, number of hours usually spent look­
ing for work, number of weeks of job search, farthest
distance traveled in looking for work, and other
items.

Report No. 157, “ Job Losers, Leavers and
E ntrants: Traits and Trends” . The text of this

Special Labor Force Report has information on the
reasons for unemployment of the Negro and other
races population. Reasons include job losers on
layoff, other job losers, job leavers, new entrants to
the labor force, and reentrants. Data include 1972
annual averages of the percent distribution of unem­
ployed blacks according to reason for unemploy­
ment, and unemployment rates according to reason
and educational attainment. Supplementary tables
include limited annual average data for each year of
the 1967-72 period.
Report No. 155, “ Em ploym ent of High School
Graduates and Dropouts, O ctober 1972“ . This

Special Labor Force Report contains data on per­
sons 16 to 24 years old according to high school
graduation status. Four of its text tables (included in
the June 1973 Monthly Labor Review article) and 11
of its 13 supplemental tables contain statistics for the
Negro and other races population. Characteristics
covered include age and sex, marital status, college
enrollment status, educational attainment, year last
attended school, year of high school graduation,
labor force participation, employment status, reason
for unemployment, occupation, and family income.
Similar data for October of earlier years are avail­
able in previously issued Special Labor Force R e­
ports (145, 131, and 121, among others.) Limited
data for October 1973 have been published in the
September 1974 issue of the M onthly Labor Review,
pp. 48-52. Data for black youth include labor force
participation and employment status according to
high school graduation status, college enrollment
status, sex, and marital status.

Report No. 149, “ The Em ploym ent Situation
of Vietnam Era Veterans” . Data are available on

black male Vietnam era veterans aged 20 to 30 years
in this report. Coverage includes labor force status
and employment status with two age breaks. Data
are presented for 1971 and the first two quarters of
1972. Comparable statistics are furnished for non­
veterans as well as limited data for veterans and
non-veterans by region. Previous Special Labor
Force Reports on Vietnam veterans include 126,
“ Vietnam W ar V eterans-T ransition to Civilian
Life,” and 137, “ Employment Situation of Vietnam
Era Veterans: 1971.”
Data for 1973 have been published in the August
1974 Monthly Labor Review (pp. 17—26). Two tables
of this article include such characteristic items for
blacks as labor force participation, employment
status, occupation, and industry, according to vete­
ran status. Some of the data are presented for four
age breaks and for each year of the 1970-73 period.

Report No. 151, “ Em ploym ent of Recent Col­
lege G raduates” . This report presents one line of

Report No. 146, “ An Analysis of Unemploy­
ment by H ousehold R elationship” . This Special

data (table 1) on black recipients of bachelor’s and
advanced college degrees. Data include the labor
force participation and employment status in Oc­
tober 1971 of persons of “ Negro and other races”
who received their degrees in 1970 or 1971.

Labor Force Report, a reprint with corrections, of an
August 1972 M onthly Labor Review article, does not
contain the supplementary detailed tables usually
found in the SLFR Series. It does contain a few text
tables which present labor force and unemployment
statistics by household relationship by race.

Report No. 150, “ Job Seeking Methods Used
by Unemployed Workers” . This report contains in­

Report No. 143, “ Usual Weekly Earnings of
American Workers, 1971” . Data in this report are

formation on the job seeking methods used by unem­
ployed workers during 1970,1971, and 1972. Data for
the Negro and other races population are tabulated
by age and sex according to six categories of job




based on response to supplemental questions asked
in the May 1971 Current Population Survey. The four
text tables and five appended tables with data for the
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Negro and other races population provide informa­
tion on the usual weekly earnings of full-time wage
and salary workers according to selected social and
economic characteristics. These include age and
sex, household status, educational attainment, oc­
cupation, and industry.

reliable and consistent data and running through the
calendar year preceding the publication date. Most
of the series with data on black Americans are
compilations of Current Population Survey data
w hich have been p rev io u sly pu b lish ed in
Employment and Earnings and Special Labor Force
Reports.
The 1973 H andbook contains 23 tables with
statistics for Negro and other races. Characteristics
presented for the working age population include
labor force p a rticip a tio n , em ploym ent sta tu s,
reasons for nonparticipation in the labor force and
unemployment, educational attainment, occupation,
full-time and part-time work status, duration of
unemployment, and family income. Most of these
data are provided at the national level by age and sex;
however a few tables present characteristics for
selected States and areas.

Report No. 138, “ O ccupational Characteris­
tics of Urban Workers, 1970". This reprint from the

October 1971 M onthly Labor Review has no sup­
plementary detailed tables; however there is a li­
mited amount of 1970 annual average CPS data on
blacks (Negro and other races) in three of its six text
tables. Included are occupational distributions for
employed blacks according to residence in SMSA’s
the 20 largest SMSA’s, central cities, and suburbs;
and some unemployment rates by residence.
Report No. 136, " Recent Trends in Overtime
Hours and Premium Pay". This report examines

characteristics of overtime workers in May of 1967,
1969, and 1970, describes the incidence of premium
pay for persons working overtime, and analyzes the
differences between persons receiving extra pay for
overtime hours and those who did not. One table in
this report provides limited data on the proportion of
blacks, by sex, working overtime or receiving pre­
mium pay. A report with more recent data is in
preparation.

BLS Report No. 431, Geographic Profile of
Employment and Unemployment, 1973

This report is the latest in a series presenting
geographic labor force data from the C urrent
Population Survey. It provides 1973 annual averages
and limited historical data for regions, large States,
and large metropolitan areas. Characteristics of the
black working-age population covered in this report
include labor force participation, employment, and
unemployment according to sex. Separate tables
include inform ation according to full-tim e or
part-time labor force status. Data for earlier years
may be found in the following BLS articles and
reports: BLS R eports 421, 402, 395, and 388;
M onthly L abor R eview , M arch 1974; and the
statistical appendix to the Manpower Report o f the
President.

R eport No. 128, "S tu d e n ts and S um m er
J o b s : O c to b e r 1 96 9 ". This re p o rt co n tain s

information from supplem ental questions to the
October 1969 Current Population Survey regarding
summer labor force acitivity of students age 16 to 21.
Data for “ Negro and other races” youth include
tabulation of the following characteristic items: age
and sex, sum m er lab o r fo rce p a rtic ip a tio n ,
em ploym ent status during the sum m er, weeks
unemployed before starting to work for those finding
jobs, weeks unem ployed during which persons
looked for but did not eventually find jobs, labor
force status in October of those in the labor force
during the summer, occupation and industry of
summer jobs, weeks worked, hours usually worked,
and earnings.

BLS Report No. 417, Selected Earnings and
Demographic Characteristics of Union
Members, 1970
This re p o rt fu rn ish es s ta tis tic s on union
membership of wage and salary workers. Data are
from the March 1971, Current Population Survey.
Characteristics of black union members include age
and sex, o c c u p atio n , in d u stry , and earnings.
Additional statistics are included on year-round
full-time workers, and on members according to
region. Some comparative data are furnished for
black workers not in labor unions.

Handbook of Labor Statistics, 1973
This annually issued publication presents, in one
volume, most major series of data produced by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. In general, each table is
com plete h isto ric a lly , beginning w ith e a rliest



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duration of unemployment, full-time and part-time
work status, occupation, industry, and selected
items for the 10 largest States, 19 SMSA’s, and 10
c e n tra l c itie s. D ata from CPS su p p lem en tal
schedules include labor force and employment status
of high school graduates and dropouts, educational
attainment, occupation by educational attainm ent,
and low-income status.
Additional tables present projections of black
population and labor force participation for 1975,
1980, and 1985; c h a ra c te ris tic s o f b lack s in
manpower training programs, and employment in
firms of 100 employees or more.
The te x tu a l p re s e n ta tio n s c o n ta in ed in all
M anpow er R eports include discussions o f the
economic status of blacks and the relevance of
m anpow er p ro b lem s and o p p o rtu n itie s fo r
minorities. Specific references to blacks and other
minorities can be found in Index to the M anpower
Report of the President, 1963-72, available free of
charge by w riting th e O ffice of In fo rm a tio n ,
Inquiries Section, M anpower Administration, U .S.
Department of Labor, W ashington, D.C. 20213.

BLS Bulletin No. 1760, Black Americans: A
Decade of Occupational Change
This publication presents a series of 21 charts and
19 statistical tables detailing the changes in the
o c c u p atio n a l
d istrib u tio n ,
unem p lo y m en t,
education, earnings, and income of blacks between
1960 and 1970, and prospects for the future. Each
chart is accompanied by explanatory text and in
some cases comparable data for whites are included.
BLS Bulletin No. 1699, Black Americans: A
Chartbook
T his p u b lic a tio n c o n ta in s 54 c h a rts (each
accompanied by one or more statistical tables, and
explanatory text) depicting demographic, social and
economic, and other characteristics of the black
population. Much of the background material on
which the charts are based was developed in the
preparation of the “ Social and Economic Status of
Negroes in United States, 1969,” A joint publication
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Bureau of the
Census. The coverage of the chartbook includes
such subjects as population location and recent
migration, labor force participation, employment
status, occupation, income and poverty, family
characteristics, health and vital statistics, housing,
crime, voting, participation in the armed forces, and
election to public office. An additional five tables
present projections to 1980 of black population,
labor force, and education.

Data Published by the Bureau of the Census
Current Population Reports
These reports are based on data derived from
supplem entary questions to the basic C urrent
Population Survey (CPS) schedule; some are added
annually while others appear on an irregular basis.
Most publications in the P-20 and P-60 series of
reports and occasional reports in most other series
include in fo rm atio n on b lac k s. Som e of the
individual Current Population Reports are advance
reports and contain very limited data, which are
subsequently incorporated into more detailed final
reports. Most of the advance reports are not listed
individually in this section; however, most of those
which contain data more recent than which appear in
the latest final report for a given subject are cited at
the end of the listing for that final report. Recently
issued advance reports providing considerable data,
however, are listed separately.
Listings of these reports are by series—P-20
(characteristics of the population), P-23 (special
studies on selected topics), P-25 (estim ates and
projections of the population), P-27 (farm population
data), P-28 (results of special censuses), P-60
(income), and P-65 (consumer expenditures). Within
each series, the most recently issued report is cited
first.

Manpower Report of the President, 1974
The statistical appendix to the annual manpower
report is published by the Manpower Administration
of the Department of Labor. It contains many BLS
statistical series on the Negro and other races
population (some present data on blacks, exclusive
of other races). Most tables have statistical time
s e rie s, dating from the firs t y ear for w hich
continuous data are available. Many are similar to
those published in the Handbook o f Labor Statistics
and 13 cover historical series for which monthly,
quarterly, and annual data are regularly available in
Em ployment and Earnings .
C h a ra c te ris tic s on N egro and o th e r ra c e s
presented in the 1974 edition include annual average
d a ta from the reg u la r CPS schedule on such
characteristics as working-age population, labor
force participation, reason for non-participation,
em ploym ent statu s, reason for unem ploym ent,



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same house, central city, county, SMSA, State, or
region) between March 1970 and March 1973. Data
regarding the residential mobility of blacks include
type of mobility (within or between the central cities
and suburbs of SMSA’s; within or between SMSA’s
and the areas outside SMSA’s; and same county or
different county as well as same or different State
and region), and such social and econom ic
characteristics as educational attainm ent, labor
force p a rtic ip a tio n , em ploym ent sta tu s , and
occupation.
An earlier Series P-20 report (No. 235) presents
inform ation for the M arch 1970 to M arch 1971
period; however, its emphasis is more on county,
S ta te , and regional m obility, ra th e r than on
movement within and among SMSA’s. Other P-20
reports with mobility data on blacks include Nos.
210, 193, and 188.

Series P-20, No. 268, “ Nursery School and
Kindergarten E nrollm ent: O ctober 1973” . This

publication on 3- to 5- year-old children is the first
Current Population Report to focus exclusively on
p rep rim a ry e n ro llm en t. D ata are based on
supplemental questions to the October, 1973 Current
Population Survey, Statistics on black children are
presented by single years of age on enrollment
s ta tu s , ty p e o f school (n u rse ry school,
kindergarten), control of school (public, private),
and part-day, full-day attendance. O ther items
tabulated according to age and enrollment status are
the occupation and ed ucational attainm ent of
household heads, family income, type of residence,
and region of residence.
The statistics in this report are comparable to
those published by the Office of Education (OE) in
the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
for the 1964 to 1972 period. The final such OE report
was Preprimary Enrollment: October 1972 (DHEW
Publication No. (OE) 73-11411).

Series P-20, No. 260, “ Social and Economic
Characteristics of Students, October 1972” . This

publication contains data by race in one text table,
most of its 19 detailed tables, and in an appendix
table. Most tables present enrollment status and
level of school in which enrolled (with varying
degrees of detail), cross-tabulated by one or more of
the following characteristics: age, sex, type of
residence, family status, years of school completed,
public or private school, education of family head,
income of family head, number of family members in
college, full-time or part-time college attendence,
type of college, and field of college study. There are
also tables pertaining to children 3 to 6 years of age
enrolled in special schools, enrollment status of
persons in 1972 compared with that in 1971, and age
grade and modal grade relationships. An appendix
table presents historical data on the enrollment of
blacks for single years from 1960 through 1972.
D etailed statistics on school enrollm ent for
October of years prior to 1972 have been published in
other reports of Series P-20, including No. 241
(October 1971), and No. 222 (October 1970). A
limited amount of advance data on the enrollment of
blacks in October 1973 can be found in P-20, No. 261,
“ School Enrollment in the United States: October
1973 (A dvance R e p o rt).” This report contains
information on enrollment status according to age,
sex, whether enrolled at or below the college level,
and high school graduation status. Additional detail
will be included in a forthcoming final report on
October 1973 school enrollment.

Series P-20, No. 265, “ Fertility Expectations
of American Women: June 1973” . This Current

Population Report presents detailed statistics on
fertility and expectations of future births according
to a large num ber of social and econom ic
characteristics of black women. These include age,
type of resid en ce, m arital sta tu s, age at first
marriage, relationship to household head, interval
since first marriage, interval since latest birth,
e x p e cte d date of n ext b irth , y ears of school
completed, labor force participation, and family
income. The following items are also presented on
hu sb an d s of w om en in tw o -p a re n t fam ilies:
difference in age between husband and wife, years of
school completed, employment status, occupation,
and income. This report includes numerous cross
tabulations of these characteristics.
Another P-20 report (no. 263), “ Fertility Histories
and Birth Expectations of American Women: June
1971,” released about 2 months prior to No. 265,
contains yet more detailed statistics on fertility, age
of childbearing, spacing of births, and expectations
of future childbearing. The June 1971 data are
presented with a larger number of cross-tabulations
and with some cohort analysis. Other recently issued
P-20 reports with detailed statistics on black fertility
include Nos. 248, 226, and 211.
Series P-20, No. 262, A “ M o b ility o f the
Population of the United States, March 1970 to
March 1973” . This report presents data on persons

Series P-20, No. 258, “ Household and Family
C haracteristics: March 1973” . This annual report

according to mobility status (whether living in the



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time of day person voted, use of absentee ballot,
rea so n fo r not v o ting, and rea so n fo r n o n ­
registration. A group of tables at the end of the report
present characteristics of voters and non-voters in
1972 according to voting participation in 1968. Statis­
tics are at the national level with occasional presen­
tations for regions.
Other recent P-20 reports with information on
blacks of voting age include: Reports, No. 244,
“ Voter Participation in November 1972;” No. 230,
“ Characteristics of New Voters: 1972;” and No.
228, “ Voting and Registration in the Election of
November 1970.”

presents characteristic data for households, families,
subfamilies, and unrelated individuals. Among the
items included for the black population are type of
residence; sex of family head; family size, number of
members of specified ages, and number of children
by age; age of family head; age of husband by age of
wife; and years of school completed, employment
status, and occupation of family head; among others.
Many of these characteristics appear in detailed
cross-tabulations.
Data are generally presented at the national level;
however, a few of the tables include characteristics
fo r regions and th re e large m etro p o litan
concentrations. Similar data for March 1972 and
1971 appear in Series P-20, Nos. 246, and 233,
respectively. A limited amount of more recent data
on black households and families are contained in
P-20, No. 266, “ Households and Families by Type:
March 1974.”
S e r ie s

P -2 0 ,

No.

257,

S e rie s P -2 0 , N o . 2 4 5 , " L iv in g A rra n g e m e n ts
o f C o lle g e S tu d e n ts : O c to b e r 1 9 7 1 ” . This report

describes the living arrangements of college students
as found in the October 1971 Current Population
Survey. The listed arrangements include living in
own household, with parents or relatives, with non­
relatives, in college housing, and other. These ar­
rangements are cross-classified for the black popula­
tion with such characteristics as sex, age, marital
status, type of college, and living arrangements the
previous summer.

“ U n d e rg ra d u a te

E n r o ll m e n t in 2 - Y e a r a n d 4 - Y e a r C o lle g e s :
O c to b e r 1 9 7 2 ” . One of the text tables in this report

has summary statistics on the college enrollment of
blacks 14 to 34 years old. Data are presented
according to type of college, and year in college.
N one o f the d e ta ile d tab le s has any d a ta on
enrollment according to race. Similar data for 1971
can be found in Report No. 236.

S e rie s P -2 0 , N o . 2 4 3 , " E d u c a tio n a l A tta in m e n t:
M a rc h 1 9 7 2 ” . This annual educational attainment

report contains 12 tables of which seven present data
on the black population—all by age. In each table an
attainment distribution ranging from 0 to 4 years of
elementary school, to 5 years of college or more (in
addition to m edian years com pleted) is crosstabulated by one or more of the following charac­
teristics: type of residence, sex, region, occupation,
and income. Occupation and income data are pre­
sented only for the male population.

S e rie s P -2 0 , N o . 2 5 5 , " M a r ita l S ta tu s a n d
1 9 7 3 " . M arital
status, family status, and living arrangements by age,
sex, type of residence, and region, are presented for
the black population in five tables of this report. An
additional table details the presence of parents and
living arrangements for blacks under 18 according to
age and sex. Comparable figures for 1972 and 1971
were issued in Series P-20, N os. 242 and 225,
respectively.

L iv in g A r r a n g e m e n t s : M a r c h

S e rie s P -2 0 , N o . 2 3 9 , " M a rria g e , D iv o rc e , a n d
R e m a rria g e b y Y e a r o f B irth : J u n e 1 9 7 1 ” . This

report is based on a June 1971 study sponsored by the
National Institute of Child Health and Human De­
velopment, utilizing supplementary questions to the
Current Population Survey. Included is information
on number of times married, when first and last
marriage began, when and how the first and last
marriages ended, and separations. In most tables the
data are classified by year of birth and sex, and some
of the marital indicators are presented by annual
income and educational attainment. All 16 tables
present data on blacks. Unlike many of the subject
areas covered annually in the P-20 series of reports,
this marital history study is the first of its kind since
1967, the results of which were published in Series
P-20, Number 223.

S e rie s P -2 0 , N o . 2 5 3 , " V o tin g a n d R e g is tra ­
tio n in th e E le c tio n o f N o v e m b e r 1 9 7 2 ” . This re­

port presents selected social and economic charac­
teristics of persons of voting age according to voter
registration status and voting participation in the
November 1972 election. Characteristics tabulated
for blacks 18 and older include age, sex, type of
residence, marital status, school enrollment, years
of school completed, labor force participation and
employment status, occupation, class of worker, and
family income.
Separate tables contain additional tabulations of
many of the above listed characteristics according to



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have occurred in the early 1970’s. Comparisons are
made with the mid- and late-1960’s. Most of the
material in these reports is from Current Population
Surveys and the 1970 census; however, some data
are also provided by other sources, both inside and
outside the Federal Government.
Demographic and social characteristics covered in
this edition include population composition and dis­
tribution, marital and family characteristics, fertility
and birth expectations, and education. Economic
items include labor force participation, employment
status, work experience, occupation and industry,
union membership, income and earnings, and lowincome status. Other subject areas covered include
voting, holders of political office, selected housing
characteristics, expenditures on cars and other con­
sumer durable goods, and health and vital statistics.
Separate chapters detail the status of black women
and the ch a ra c te ristic s of blacks living in the
low-income areas of cities with a 250,000 black
inhabitants or more in 1970. Some of the tables
present comparable data for whites, and a few
include statistics according to region.
Earlier reports in this series of special studies have
included statistics on migration, military participa­
tion, crime victimization, subemployment, and other
items. The following is a listing of the six other re­
ports in this series:

S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 50, " F e m a le F a m ily H e a d s ” .

This study uses data from Current Population Sur­
veys and the 1960 and 1970 decennial censuses to
present summary data regarding trends in the inci­
dence of female family headship and a profile of the
social and economic characteristics of female family
heads and their family members. Most of the report’s
21 tables present the latest available data (usually
from the March 1973 CPS) and comparable figures
for 1960 and 1970. Twenty tables have statistical data
on the black population.
Characteristic items portrayed for blacks include
age, type of residence, marital status, family size,
number of children, educational attainment, labor
force participation, occupation, work experience,
income, source of income, incidence of low-income
status, tenure of housing, and the relationship of rent
to income. Two tables focus on the incidence and age
female primary individuals, and one table presents
summary data on the age, marital status, and number
of children of female headed subfamilies.
S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 4 9 , " P o p u la tio n o f th e U n ite d

This
report was prepared as a part of the background
material for the World Population Conference held
August 1974. It represents one of a series of “ coun­
try statem ents’’ prepared by each of 57 cooperating
countries. Its statistics are from the 1950, 1960, and
1970 decennial census, Current Population Surveys,
annual vital statistics records and numerous other
sources both Government and private. Its content is
primarily text presentation; however there are about
20 tables and several charts with summary data on
the black population. Among the characteristics on
blacks covered in the tables are fertility, childspac­
ing, and illegitimate births; life expectancy and death
rates by cause; illiteracy; income; and such employ­
ment items as occupation, industry, labor force par­
ticipation, and number of earners in families.

S ta te s, T rend s a n d P ro s p e c ts : 1 9 5 0 -1 9 9 0 ” .

Report Title

“The Social and Economic Status
of the Black Population in the
United States, 1972“
“ The Social and Economic Status
of the Black Population in the
United States, 1971“
“ The Social and Economic Status
of Negroes in the United States,
1970“
“The Social and Economic Status
of Negroes in the United States,
1969“
“Recent Trends in Social and
Economic Conditions of Negroes in
the United States” (Issued, July
1968)
“ Social and Economic Conditions
of Negroes in the United States”
(Issued, October 1967)

S e r ie s P - 2 3 , N o . 4 8 , “ T h e S o c ia l a n d
E c o n o m ic S ta tu s o f th e B la c k P o p u la tio n th e U n ­
ite d S ta te s , 1 9 7 3 ” . This publication is the seventh in

a series of special studies on the black population
released by the Bureau of the Census, the first four of
which were published jointly with the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. These studies contain numerous
statistical tables relating to a wide range of social,
economic, and other chracteristics, with a discus­
sion of findings, including the most significant trends
and patterns for each characteristic. The particular
focus of this year’s report is on the changes which




Census
Bureau
Current
Population
Report
series, number
P-23, No. 46

BLS
report
number

*

P-23, No. 42

*

P-23, No. 38

394

P-23, No. 29

375

P-23, No. 26

347

P-23, No. 24

332

*Published solely by Bureau of Census with BLS contributing
data and analysis on labor force and employment developments.

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ings over the 10-year period. All tables present data
for the following type of residence categories for
both years: (1) metropolitan areas, (2) central cities
within metropolitan areas, (3) suburban rings, and (4)
nonmetropolitan areas. A few tables cover SMSA’s
of 250,000 inhabitants or more. Coverage of the
black population is present in all 30 tables, and most
are tabulated by the sex of persons or of family
heads, whichever is applicable.
The characteristics covered are age, region, type
of family, m arital status, presence of children,
education, labor force and em ploym ent status,
occupation, weeks worked, earnings and income. A
total of 12 tables present characteristics of the
low-income population.
This report is the third in a series presenting data
for p e rso n s resid in g in m etro p o lita n and
nonmetropolitan areas. Data for 1968 and 1969 were
presented in Series P-23, Numbers 27, and 33.

S e r ie s P -2 3 , N o . 4 4 , “ C h a r a c t e r is t ic s o f
A m e r ic a n Y o u t h : 1 9 7 2 ’ ’. “ C h a ra c te ristic s of

American Youth: 1972” , is the fourth annual P-23
series report issued on the 14 to 24 year old popula­
tion. Subjects on which data are presented for black
youth are population, school enrollment, educa­
tional attainment, marital status, family status, voter
participation, fertility, labor force status and low
income.
The tables in this publication present generalized
data; however detailed data on these subject areas
can be obtained from appropriate reports in the P-20,
and P-60 series.
S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 4 1 , “ P r e lim in a ry N a tio n a l
C en s u s S u rv iv a l R a te s , B y R a c e a n d S e x , F o r 1 9 6 0
to 1 9 7 0 ’’. This report presents survival rates by race

for the 1960-70 decade. These rates are based on the
population as enumerated by age in two successive
decennial censuses and represent the ratio of the
population in a given age group at the second census
to the population in the same cohort at the earlier
census, and adjusted to exclude net immigration dur­
ing the intercensal period. Data are provided, by age
and sex, for the “ Negro and other races” category as
well as for Negroes only.

S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 3 6 , “ F e r tility In d ic a to r s :
1 9 7 0 ’’. “ Fertility indicators: 1970,” is one of the few

Current Population Reports which includes some
data from the National Center for Health Statistics in
HEW , and privately conducted surveys. The focus
of this report is on trends and differentials in fertility
during the preceding decade; however, some tables
present time series extending back 50 years to pro­
vide historical perspective.
Characteristic items presented for the black popu­
lation include recent trends in fertility; fertility by
age structure, marital status, and such social and
economic characteristics as type of residence, occu­
pation, income and education; child spacing; birth
expectations; illegitimacy; and attitudes toward con­
traception and abortion.

S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 3 9 , “ D iffe re n c e s B e tw e e n
In c o m e s o f W h ite a n d N e g ro F a m ilie s b y W o rk
E x p e rie n c e o f W ife a n d R e g io n : 1970, 1969, a n d
1 9 5 9 ’’. This report presents statistical data on white

and Negro husband-wife families by family income,
earnings of the husband and of the wife, work ex­
perience and occupation of the wife, and age of the
husband, for 1970,1969, and 1959. Data are provided
at the national level, for the South, and for the bal­
ance of the Nation. An earlier report in the P-23
series, “ Differences Between Incomes of White and
Negro Families by Region, 1969 and 1959” , P-23,
No. 35, provides similar income data but with less
detail.

S e rie s P -2 5 , N o s. 5 1 9 ,4 6 1 , a n d 4 4 1 , “P o p u la ­
tio n E s tim a te s a n d P r o j e c t i o n s The P-25 series of

Current Population Reports generally presents popu­
lation estimates and projections for the United States
as a whole; however, there are occasional reports
with data at less than the National level, and/or with
breakdowns by age, sex, or race or all three. The
most recent such report with data on blacks is No.
519, “ Estimates of the Population of the United
States, by Age, Sex, and Race: April 1, 1960 to July
1, 1973” . This publication presents estimates of the
Negro as well as the Negro and other races popula­

S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 3 7 , “ S o c ia l a n d E c o n o m ic
C h a ra c te ris tic s o f th e P o p u la tio n in M e tro p o lita n
a n d N o n m e tro p o lita n A re a s : 1 9 7 0 a n d I 9 6 0 ’’. The

data in this report are from the March 1970, Current
Population Survey and a one-in-a-thousand sample
of the 1960 census. The purpose is to compare find­




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this period, most of which were in portions of Arkan­
sas, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Data for blacks in this publication (and in the P-28
reports listed below) are limited to counts, by sex, of
the Negro and other races population.
Report P-28, No. 1507, “ Summary of Special
Censuses Conducted by the Bureau of the Census
Betw een January 1, 1973 and June 30, 1973,”
presents a summary of 92 special censuses. Most of
these were conducted in portions of A rkansas,
Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
Report P-28, No. 1500, “ Summary of Special Cen­
suses Conducted by the Bureau of the Census Be­
tween April 1, 1970 and December 31, 1972,” pro­
vides summary data from the 141 special censuses
taken during the 33 month period following the tak­
ing of the decennial census. Most of these were con­
ducted in a large number of suburban communities in
the Chicago, Illinois SMS A. A large number of spe­
cial censuses were also conducted in parts of Arkan­
sas and North Dakota during this period.

tion by single years of age and by sex, for July 1 of
each year from 1960 to 1963. It provides three sepa­
rate series of estimates—of the total population in­
cluding armed forces overseas, of the resident popu­
lation, and of the civilian population. In addition are
April 1, 1960 and 1970 counts from decennial cen­
suses.
A previous P-25 publication with information on
blacks is No. 461, “ Com ponents of Population
Change by County: 1960 to 1970.” The statistical
data in this report are not from the CPS but from the
1970 census, and also comprise part of the material in
the PHC(2) Series of reports. The only other P-25
report with data on blacks issued since early 1970 is
No. 441, “ Estimates of the Population of the United
States, by Age, Race, and Sex: July 1,1967 to July 1,
1969,” issued March 1970. Its data comprise part of
the estimates contained in P-25, No. 519, cited
above.
S e rie s P -2 7 , N o . 4 5 , ”F a rm P o p u la tio n o f th e
U n ite d S ta te s 1 9 7 3 ” . This report is one of a series

;

of annual reports on the farm population prepared
cooperatively by the Bureau of the Census and the
Economic Research Service of the Department of
Agriculture. Detailed data on blacks (Negro and
other races) include counts of the farm population by
sex and age; labor force participation, employment
status, and whether employed in agricultural indus­
tries for persons 14 years old and over by sex and
region; and class of worker, by whether employed in
agricultural industries, sex, and region, for persons
age 14 and over. In addition, general statistics on
type of family, family size, number of children in
family, fertility, income, and low-income status are
provided for both the farm and nonfarm black popu­
lation.
Comparable data for 1972 appear in Series P-27,
No. 44, and earlier reports have been published an­
nually since 1961.

S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 96, " H o u s e h o ld M o n e y In ­
c o m e in 1 97 3 a n d S e le c te d S o c ia l a n d E c o n o m ic
C h a ra c te ris tic s o f H o u s e h o ld s ” . This report in­

cludes limited data from the March 1974 Current
Population Survey on households headed by blacks.
Characteristics items include the representation of
black households within each income quantile of all
households; the distribution of income among black
households; and number of persons, number under
18 years of age, and number 18 or older. Similar
reports for 1972, 1971, and 1970 are Series P-60,
Numbers 89, 84, and 79 respectively.
S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 95, “ S u p p le m e n ta r y R e p o rt
on th e L o w -In c o m e P o p u la tio n : 1 9 6 6 to 1 9 7 2 ” .

This report presents detailed social and economic
data for the total population and for those below the
low-income level for individual years of the 1966-72
period. These data, based on the March 1967 to 1973
Current Population Surveys, were extracted from a
series of tabulations prepared for the Office of
Economic Opportunity. They supplement data on
the low-income population published in other Series
P-60 reports.(See P-60, No. 91.)
Included among the data presented in this report’s
11 tables are tabulations of the low-income status of
blacks cross-tabulated by age and sex, type of resi­
dence, family status, employment status, work ex­
perience, reason for not working, occupation, indus­
try, major activity (in school and other), income, and
type of income. Selected data are presented for

S e rie s P -2 8 , N o . 1508, S u m m a ry o f S p e c ia l
C en su ses C o n d u c te d b y th e B u re a u o f th e C e n ­
sus B e tw e e n J u ly 1 ,1 9 7 3 a n d D e c e m b e r 3 1 ,1 9 7 3 .

This report summ arizes the findings of special
censuses6 conducted during the last 6 months of
1973. A total of 68 such censuses were taken during
6A special census is generally undertaken on the authorization
of an appropriate local government. The local government agrees
to pay all the necessary expenses and to provide office space and
equipment. Ordinarily the content of a special census is limited to
questions on age, sex, race, and household relationship, although
additional items may be included at the request and expense of the
sponsor.




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eight with data on the black population. These tables
show the num ber and incidence of persons and
families with low-income by such characteristics as
type of residence, region, residential m obility,
marital status, type of family, number of children,
education, age, employment status, occupation,
number of earners, work experience, and type of
incom e. T here are se v era l tab les p rese n tin g
information on the amount of income needed to close
the gap between current income and the low-income
threshold. In addition, 12 summary tables can be
found among the 14 pages of text material at the
beginning of the report. Some previous P-60 reports
on the low-income population include numbers 86,
81,76, and 68.
Additional tabulations on 1972 low-income are
available in Series P-60, No. 95, and advance data for
1973 are presented in Series P-60, No. 94.

blacks in each of the 10 Federal Administrative
regions for 1969 to 1972 and on the characteristics of
blacks with incomes between 100 and 125 percent,
and between 125 and 150 percent of the low-income
level for the same years.
S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 94, “ C h a ra c te ris tic s o f the
L o w -In c o m e P o p u la tio n : 1 9 7 3 ” . “ Characteristics

of the Low-Income Population: 1973” is an advance
report with a considerable amount of preliminary
data on black families and persons according to
low -incom e sta tu s. D ata for p e rso n s include
low-income status according to sex, age, and family
status. Information on families include tabulations
according to type of residence; family size and
number of children; and the age, sex, educational
attainment, employment status, work experience,
and occupation of the family head. Limited data are
also provided on incom e deficit (the additional
income required to attain the low-income level) and
the incidence of persons with income less than 125
percent of the low-income level. A detailed report
with numerous cross-tabulations will be issued later
th is y ear. D etailed re p o rt w ith num erous
cross-tabulations will be issued later this year.
Detailed information on the low-income population
in 1972 are available in Series P-60, Nos. 91 and 95.

S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 90, “ M o n e y In c o m e in 197 2
o f F a m ilie s a n d P e rs o n s in th e U n ite d S ta te s ” .

This publication, the latest in a series of detailed
annual reports on income, contains 76 tables of
incom e d a ta from the M arch 1973 C u rren t
Population Survey. About half of the tables contain
information on the incomes of blacks. The data
include income of families and unrelated individuals
and earnings of persons by type of residence, region,
marital status, type of family, number of children,
education, age, number of earners in the family,
weeks worked, and other characterisics. Additional
tables present information on the source of income
and some historical data from 1947 through 1971.
A text section prefacing the detailed tables contain
discussions of findings, related reports, definitions,
data comparability, and the source and relability of
the estimates.
The P-60 series re p o rts on incom e contain
information by race dating as far back as 1954;
h o w ev er re p o rts issu e d b efore 1965 have
considerably less detail than later ones. A list of
previously issued P-60 reports is provided on pages
165-66 of the 1972 income report.

S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 93, “ M o n e y In c o m e in 1973
o f F a m ilie s a n d P e rs o n s in th e U n ite d S ta te s ” .

This is an ad v an ce re p o rt w hich includes a
considerable amount of data on the income of black
families and persons. Median 1973 income of all
black families and families in which the head worked
year-round full-time is presented according to type
of residence, region, type of family, and number of
earners. Medians for black persons and year-round
full-time workers are provided according to region.
Income distributions are presented for all families,
unrelated individuals, and persons, but without any
cross-classification. A more detailed 1973 income
report is scheduled for release in the latter part of
1974. Detailed data, however, are available for 1972;
see P-60, No. 90, below.

S e r ie s

P -6 5 ,

No.

47,

“ H o u s e h o ld

S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 91, “ C h a ra c te ris tic s o f th e
L o w -In c o m e P o p u la tio n : 1 9 7 2 ” . Coverage of the

H o u s e h o ld D u r a b le s : 1 96 8 to 197 2, A n n u a l D a t a ” .

low-income population has been a part of the P-60,
Consum er Income Series of reports since 1963.
Since 1968 they have been issued on an annual basis.
In addition to current information, some of these
reports contain historical data beginning in 1959. The
report for 1972 contain 45 detailed tables, all but

This Current P opulation Report presents data
regarding the spending on major durable goods by
households in the 1968-72 period. These data were
g a th e red in the S urvey of C onsum er B uying
Expectations (CBE), which was conducted on a
quarterly basis from July 1966 through April 1973,




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on

C a rs

and

S e le c te d

N ew

Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture

but has since been discontinued.
Expenditures of black headed households are
presented for each of the 5 years and for all years
com bined. In ad d itio n , the num ber of item s
purchased per 100 households over the 5-year period
is given. Durable goods covered include new cars,
used cars, w ashing m achines, clothes d ry ers,
k itch en ran g es, re frig e ra to rs and fre e z e rs,
dishwashers, room airconditioners, black and white
televisions, and color televisions.
Results from each of the individual quarterly
surveys are published in previous P-65 reports.
These reports also contain home buying data, and
probability statistics on the purchase of homes and
consumer durables. However, they do not provide
the detail on in d ividual a p p lia n ce s, by ra c e ,
contained in P-65, No. 47. Report No. 46 contains a
statement concerning the decision to discontinue the
CBE Survey.

Rural Developm ent Service Statistical
Bulletins
B u lle tin N o . 5 2 0 “ In a d e q u a te H o u s in g a n d
P o v e r t y S ta tu s o f H o u s e h o ld s ” . This rep o rt

presents statistics on the incidence of low-income
and inadequate housing in areas served by Farmers
Administration (FHA) Programs (rural areas and
places having 2,500 to 10,000 inhabitants located
outside urbanized areas). Data are drawn from the
1970 decennial census. Data for blacks include
number of housing units, number of units lacking
complete plumbing, and household in poverty in
FHA areas at the National, Federal administrative
region, and State levels.
Data from the Civil Service Commission
Minority Group Employment in the Federal
Government (November 1972)

Data published by the Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Economic Reports

This biannual publication issued by the Bureau of
Manpower Information Systems, presents statistics
on the number and incidence of minority group
Federal employees according to pay plan and grade
or salary level. Reports are issued for May and
November of each year.
The reports issued each November provide the
number and proportion of blacks at the national level
for 120 separate Federal agencies according to pay
plan and detailed grade and salary level. In addition,
Government-wide totals are provided for each State,
75 individual SMSA’s, and 11 civil service regions
according to pay plan and grade or salary level
grouping. An introductory text to the November,
1972 edition includes some tables with data for the
1969-72 period. Reports issued each May are less
detailed and coverage is generally limited to the
national level.

R e p o rt N o . 2 3 9 , “ The H ire d F a rm W o rk in g
F o rc e o f 1 9 7 2 : a S ta tis tic a l R e p o r t” . This annual

report published by the Economic Research Service
presents information on the size and composition of
the hired farm working force and on the employment
and earnings from farm and nonfarm work during the
year. Data are obtained from supplemental questions
to each D ecem ber’s C urrent Population Survey
schedule. Statistics for Negro and other races in the
1972 report include: Number of farm workers by sex,
man-days of farm wage work, and per day and per
year wages earned for farm and nonfarm work by
region and sex. Separate tables provide data for
persons who did 25 days of farm work or more and
for those who reported farm work exclusively.
Reports 222, 201, and 180 provide similar data for
1971, 1970, and 1969, respectively.

Data from the Bureau of the Census7

Selected Other Data Sources

Statistical Abstract of the United States:
1973

The following listings provide selected data
sources other than the 1970 Decennial Sources and
the C u rren t P o p u latio n S u rv ey . U nlike the
D ecennial C ensus and the CPS, som e of the
following sources are not from household surveys,
but generally from surveys of em ployers and
educational institutions, and from the records of
social welfare programs.




The Statistical Abstract , published annually since
7Census Bureau publications with results of the decennial
census and the Current Population Survey are described
elsewhere in this directory.

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1878, provides a selection of data on the social,
political, and economic organization of the United
States from both governmental and private sources.
In addition to presenting more than a thousand tables
on numerous subjects, it is appended with a detailed
guide to statistical source publications, a list of State
statistical abstracts, and a directory of government
and other agencies providing input to this volume.
The 1973 edition contains over 100 tables with data
on the characteristics of the black population; a large
number of which come from decennial censuses and
Current Population Surveys, covering demographic,
educational, labor force, employment, income, and
housing c h a ra c te ris tic s . H o w ev er, th ere are
numerous tables containing other data from sources
which are not described elsewhere in this directory.
These tables include statistics on health and vital
statistics (section 2 of the 1973 Statistical Abstract),
arrests and crime victim ization (section 5), and
school desegregation (section 4).

operators; tenure, type of organization, size and type
of farm, economic class, and acres of harvested crop­
lands; and value of farm, machinery and equipment,
and crops harvested. Some of these data are pro­
vided for individual counties, with greater coverage
of counties in the southern States.
Volume II is a series of nine publications, each
designated as a chapter for the General Report ,
which is a national summary. Of the four chapters
with data on black operated farms (Nos. 2, 3, 7, and
8), number two contains the most information. In it
are such characteristics as tenure, age of operator,
acreage, and economic class of farm. More detailed
statistics are presented for the South. Some of the
tables in both volumes I and II provide comparative
data for earlier years, in particular, 1964.
Minority-Owned Business: 1969
This publication presents the first comprehensive
statistical data compiled on black-owned businesses.
Its coverage includes industrial activity, geographic
location, employment, gross receipts, and legal form
of organization. Data are provided for the Nation,
each State and the District of Columbia, and SMSA’s
having 500 minority-owned firms or more. Greatest
detail is at the national level, with coverage of more
than 300 separate industrial groups. More recent
data are scheduled for release during the latter part of
1974.

County and City Data Book, 1972
This volume is the eighth in the County and City
Data Book series and the first to incorporate data
from the 1970 Census. It contains eight summary
data items on black population and housing for the
United States, each of the four regions, 50 States,
3,141 counties (or county equivalents), 243 SMSA’s
and 248 urbanized areas, and the 840 cities and 76
unincorporated places of 25,000 inhabitants or more.
Items included are: Number of blacks in 1970 and
percent increase between 1960 and 1970; black as a
percent of total elementary and secondary school
enrollment; median 1969 income of black families;
number of black occupied housing units; and propor­
tions of those units which are owner occupied, lack­
ing some or all plumbing facilities, and with 1.01
persons or more per room. For urbanized areas,
cities, and unincorporated places, additional black
data are presented—families as a proportion of total
families, and percent of black families below the
low-income level.

Data from the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
Equal Employment Opportunity Report:
1970, Job Patterns for Minorities and
Women in Private Industry
This annually issued report (in 2 volumes) pro­
vides data on the employment of minorities by indus­
try and broad occupational categories for the United
States, States, and standard metropolitan statistical
areas. These statistics are based on reports submit­
ted to the Commission in early 1970 by 45,000 em­
ployers rep resen tin g nearly 140,000 reporting
estab lish m en ts and covering about 31 m illion
workers. This is the fifth annual report containing
such information, required by either Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964 or under Executive Order
11246.
Employment data for blacks, by sex, are provided
as follows: (1) Nationwide total of black workers

Census of Agriculture: 1969, reports
Selected 1969 Census of Agriculture reports in­
cludes data on black operated farm s and their
operators. Volume 1 Area Reports (a series of State
reports containing Statewide and county data) pro­
vides statistics on such characteristics as age, place
of residence, and weeks worked off the farm of black




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"covering all establishm ents in the survey; (2)
statewide totals for 49 States and the District of
Columbia (Hawaiian firms are not required to report
to the EEOC); (3) industry of employment, by State,
for each of 60 industry groups. These tables are
published for those States in which there are at least
10 reporting establishments within the industry, or at
le a st five e sta b lish m e n ts and at lea st 2,000
employees; and (4) selected industry tables (for
industries meeting the same 10/5-2000 requirement
above) for the 136 SMSA’s containing 10,000 blacks
or more, according to the 1960 census.
Reports for 1971 and 1973 are scheduled for re­
lease in the latter part of 1974.

States, and individual institutions. Data are from a
1970 survey conducted by the Office for Civil Rights
upon those institutions receiving or expecting to
receive some form of Federal financial assistance.
Comparable data are included for total enrollment,
American Indians, Orientals, and Spanish sumamed
persons.
Digest of Educational Statistics, 1973
The 1973 edition of this annual Office of Education
publication contains 21 tables with summary infor­
mation on the black population, black students, and
the schools they attend. Some of these tables contain
school enrollm ent, educational attainm ent, and
labor force data excerpted from Current Population
Reports, Special Labor Force Reports, and decen­
nial censuses—data sources already enumerated in
this Directory. Other tables have information on
items not already covered, including black enroll­
ment in adult education programs; first-time college
students by race; enrollment and degrees conferred
in institutions attended predominantly by blacks;
representation of blacks on college faculties; age of
public school buildings used by blacks; racial/ethnic
isolation (segregation) in public schools; and 1969
test scores, by race, in five areas of educational
progress.

Data from the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare
Findings of the 1971 AFDC Study Parts I and
III
This report of the National Center for Social
Statistics in H EW , p resents tabulations of the
characteristics of beneficiaries under the Aid to
Fam ilies w ith D e p e n d e n t C hild ren (A FD C )
program, administered by the States and the Social
and Rehabilitation Service of HEW. Data are based
on caseload sample statistics submitted by State
welfare agencies.
These findings include five tables with statistics on
blacks. Table 2 of part I presents the percentage of
blacks among AFDC families and children for the
United States, geographic divisions, and 20 States.
Part III includes four tables with data at the national
level concerning the family status of the fathers and
m others of AFDC children, the length of time
families have been receiving AFDC benefits, and
type of residence.
Statistics similar to those in table 2 (of part I) for
black beneficiaries under the Old Age Assistance,
Aid to the Blind, and Aid to the Permanently and
Totally Disabled programs are available in Findings
o f the 1970 OAA Study , Findings o f the 1970 AB
Study , and Findings o f the 1970 APTD Study.

Social Security Bulletin, Annual Statistical
Supplement, 1971
This annual supplement contains numerous statis­
tical tables on the characteristics of perons receiving
benefits under the social security program. In the
1971 edition, six of its 146 tables present information
for blacks. Included among these tables are data on
the num ber of blacks receiving social security
benefits during the year, number in current-payment
status at the end of the year, and average monthly
amount of benefit according to type of beneficiary,
age, sex for the N a tio n ; num ber of blacks
beneficiaries for regions and States; and number of
black persons receiving worker disability allowances
according to cause of disability and occupation.
Similar data for previous years are available in
earlier editions of the supplem ent. In addition,
statistical data by race for 1969 have been published
in “ Social S ecurity B enefits and Earnings of
Minority Groups in Covered Employment” , Social
Security Adm inistration Research and Statistics
N otes , No. 5— 1971.

Racial and Ethnic Enrollment Data from In­
stitutions of Higher Education: Fall 1970
This report, published by the Office for Civil
Rights includes college enrollment statistics on black
full-time students in higher education according to
level (undergraduate, graduate) for the N ation,




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No. 16, Volumes I, II, III— “ Career Thresholds’’ (men 14 to 24
years old at the time of the initial survey in 1966).
No. 21, Volumes I, II— “ DualCareers’’ (women 30to 4 4 years
old at the time of their initial survey in mid-1967).
No. 24, Volume I— “ Years for Decision’’ (women 14 to 24
years old at the time of their first survey in early-1968).

Data from the Manpower Administration of the
Department of Labor
Unemployment Insurance Statistics
This periodical provides monthly data collected
and reported to the Manpower Administration by
cooperating State employment security agencies,
and in some cases from interviews with a sample of
unemployment insurance claimants. Limited data
for Negro and other races are available in eight tables
presenting information at the national level. Two of
these tables also have data for individual States.
Characteristics for Negro and other races include
age, sex, weeks unemployed, occupation, industry,
and educational attainment.

Additional volumes under each title and at least
one consolidated summary report are planned for
future publication.
Most of the statistical tables in the currently avail­
able volumes contain information for blacks on a
large number of social and economic characteristic
items. These include marital status, labor force par­
ticipation, employment status, years of school com­
pleted, vocational training, occupation and industry,
hourly pay, hours or weeks worked or both, and
occupational and geographic mobility. In addition,
numerous items pertaining to health, commitment to
the work ethic, job attachm ent, and job satisfaction
are presented in most reports.
The amount of discussion and number of tables
devoted to individual characteristic items enumer­
ated above, as well as those covered in only a few
volumes, vary among the four population groups.
For example, data on prospective retirement and
pension plans, and relatively greater coverage of job
satisfaction and health items are found in the reports
on the older men. For the older women, there is
relatively heavy emphasis on the presence of chil­
dren, attitudes on working women, and other labor
force participation determinants. For the younger
groups, such items as school enrollment, educational
and occupational aspirations, and knowledge of the
world of work are large parts of the volumes on
young men; while enrollment, aspirations, presence
of clerical skills, and presence of children items
comprise a large part of the monograph on women 14
to 24 years old.
Most of the items covered in these reports are
presented in cross-classification with one or more
other items. In addition, a large body of explanatory
and analytical text discusses findings and year-toyear changes.

Manpower Research Monographs
M o n o g ra p h N o s. 15, 16, 21, a n d 24.

These

Manpower Research Monographs present results

from 5-year longitudinal studies performed by the
Center for Human Resource Research of The Ohio
State University, under contract for the Manpower
Administration.8 These studies examine the labor
market experience of four groups of the national
population: Men 45 to 59 years old, women 30 to 44,
and young men and women age 14 to 24. Each group
was surveyed at annual intervals, for a total of six
surveys in the 5-year period.
At this time the results of the flrstthree surveys for
the older women and the younger men, the first four
surveys for the older men, and the initial survey for
the younger women have been published in the fol­
lowing monographs:
No. 15, Volumes I, II, III—“ The Pre-Retirement Years’’ (men
aged 45 to 59 at the time of the initial survey in 1966).
8The U .S. Bureau of the Census, under a separate contract is
responsible for development of the samples, conducting all the
interviews, processing data, and preparing the tabulations
requested by the Center for Human Resource Research. The
Center is responsible for the analysis of data and the preparation
of the reports.




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Section II. Persons of Spanish Ancestry
Introduction
Spanish language—This concept was used for the
first time in the 1970 census; however, the basic
component, mother tongue, has a relatively long
history in census use. The question on m other
tongue is related to the language spoken in the
person’s home as a child, and was asked of the 15
percent sample of households. Persons of Spanish
language consist of persons having reported Spanish
mother tongue and all other persons in families in
which the head or wife reported Spanish as his or her
m other tongue. About 18 percent of persons of
Spanish language in 1970 were not actually of
Spanish mother tongue.
Spanish language is the largest component of the
Spanish heritage definition used in presenting most
data in Volume I of the population census, in a few
Volume II reports, and in many of the housing
census publications.
Birth or p a re n ta g e —The identifier with the
longest history of census use is the one in which
information on the birthplace of the individual and of
his parents was obtained. From the questions,
information is obtained concerning the number of
first and second generation immigrants from such
co u n tries as M exico, C uba, and o th e r L atin
American countries as well as persons of Puerto
Rican birth or parentage. Birth and parentage data,
how ever, fail to include third and successive
generation m em bers of an ethnic group. This
identifier is used in some of the PC(2) Subject
Reports. It is also used for the Middle Atlantic States
in defining the term Spanish heritage.
Spanish heritage—This is a summary concept
making use of the language, surname, and birth and
parentage identifiers. It is the basis of most Spanish
ancestry data in the Volume I reports of the Census
of Population, the Volume I and II reports of the
Census of Housing, and the PH C(l) Census Tract
reports. A person is defined to be Spanish heritage if
he is (a) of Puerto Rican birth or parentage in New
Jersey, New York, or Pennsylvania, (b) of Spanish
language or Spanish surname in Arizona, California,
Colorado, New Mexico, or Texas, (c) or of Spanish

Data are available for persons of Spanish ancestry
according to several different definitions. The 1970
census used four basic identifiers to provide statisti­
cal information for persons of M exican, Puerto
Rican, Cuban, or other Spanish background. These
identifiers are based on origin, surname, language,
and birthplace. The use of multiple identifiers re­
flects the fact that ethnicity is considerably more
difficult to ascertain than race, which in the census,
is based on the respondent’s self-identification. Only
one of the Spanish identifiers—Spanish origin or
descent—relies on self-identification. It is also the
means by which the Spanish ancestry population has
been identified in the Census B ureau’s Current
Population Surveys.
Spanish origin—This identifier, used in a decen­
nial census for the first time in 1970, is based on
self-identification according to responses to the fol­
lowing question asked of a 5 percent sample of
households throughout all areas of the country: “ Is
this person’s origin or descent—(fill one circle).’’
0 Mexican
0 Puerto Rican
0 Cuban

0 Central or South American
0 Other Spanish
0 No, None of these

Data based on the origin identifier are presented
prim arily in the V olum e II, S u b jec t R e p o rts ,
however Spanish ancestry data located in any census
report on such 5 percent sample questions as work
disability, vocational training, number of bedrooms,
and type of fuels used in the home, are also based on
this identifier.
Spanish surname—This identifier has been used in
the 1950, 1960, 1970 censuses to classify separately
the large concentration of Spanish sumamed persons
in the Southwest. In five Southwest States (Arizona,
California, Colorado, New M exico, and Texas)
persons with Spanish surname were identified by
means of a list of over 8,000 Spanish surnames
originally com plied by the U n ited S tates
Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1936 and
later up-dated by the Bureau of the Census.




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language in the other 42 States and the District of
Columbia.
Yet another identifier was used for persons of
S panish A n cestry in m ost o f the C ensus
E m ploym ent
S urvey
re p o rts
(PHC(3)
Series)—white Spanish. This group consisted of
white persons of Spanish mother tongue or birth or
both, or parent’s birth in a Spanish speaking country.
As previously m entioned, the Spanish origin
self-identifier is also used in the Current Population
Survey. The questionnaire wording, however, has
v aried am ong su rv e y s w ith reg ard to this
identifier—and affects consistency in the number or
persons identifying one’s self as of Spanish origin or
descent. In the November 1969 CPS, the respondent
was asked to choose from six items (Is . . . ’s origin or
descent? Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or
South American, other Spanish, None of these).
Those choosing “ none of these’’ were then asked a
second ethnicity question regarding other origin or
descent. Ethnic identification in the March 1971 and
1972 surveys consisted of only one question with 15
items. Those who chose M exicano or Chicano,
Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or
other Spanish were classified as of Spanish origin or
descent.
In the November 1972 survey, there was another
variation—an origin or descent question with 16
choice categories. Spanish origin choices included
Mexican-American, Chicano, Mexican (Mexicano),
Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Spanish. The March
1973 CPS had 17 categories, seven of which were
S panish id e n tifie rs—th o se w hich w ere in the
N ovem ber 1972 survey plus a Central or South
Am erican entry. The M arch 1973 question has
remained as a continuing CPS item since that date.
These slight changes can affect the counts of all
persons of Spanish origin or descent and those of one
or more specific origins. For example, more persons
will fall into the Mexican American category given
the choices of M exican-A m erican, Chicano, or
Mexican (Mexicano), than given the Mexican choice
alone.
Spanish ancestry data in the EEOC employment
reports are published under the heading of Spanish
surnam e. H ow ever, em ployers com pleting the
EEOC reporting forms are instructed to indentify
Spanish “ sum am ed’’ Americans by “ inspection of
records bearing the employees’ names, by visual
survey, by employees’ use of the Spanish language,
or other indications that they belong to this g ro u p . . .
In all instances . .. included in the minority group to
which he or she appears to belong, or is regarded in




the community as belonging.’’ Hence, the EEOC
Spanish identifier is broader than that of surname
alone. The Spanish surnamed classification in the
Civil Service C om m ission rep o rts on F ederal
employment is similar—based on origin, language,
visual ob serv atio n , and w hat the em ployee is
regarded by his or her self, the community or the
work environm ent, as well as surnam e. In the
collection of the EEOC and the CSC data, the direct
questioning of the employee as to race or ethnicity
was not permitted.
Statistics from HEW are based on similarly broad
Spanish ancestry identification expect those from
the Social Security Administration, which are based
on surname alone.
The data available for persons of Spanish ancestry
is considerably less than that for blacks. The best
sources include selected reports from the 1970
decennial census, a few of the P-20 and P-60 Series of
Current Population Reports, and the annual Equal
E m p lo y m en t
O p p o rtu n ity
C o m m issio n ’s
employment report. As already mentioned, persons
of Spanish ancestry are identified according to
several different definitions; the individual data
source listings indicate the specific identifier used in
each report or series or reports.
A lm ost all p u b licatio n s co n taining Spanish
ancestry data also contain comparable statistics for
blacks and the total population. In a number of
reports similar data are available for whites also.
For the user who needs publications covering a
wide range of social and economic characteristics of
persons of Spanish ancestry at the National level,
without detailed cross-classification of items, there
are th re e re p o rts w hich can satisfy such
requirements. These are the Census o f Population:
1970, PC(2)-1C, Su b ject R eports, “ Persons of
Spanish Origin’’; the PC (1)-1C, “ General Social and
E conom ic C h a ra c te ris tic s, U n ited S tates
Sum m ary’’ report (data on persons of Spanish
heritage); and the Series P-20, No. 264 Current
Population Report, “ Persons of Spanish Origin in
the United States: March 1973.’’
Two additional 1970 census PC(2) reports—No.
1-D, “ Persons of Spanish Surnam e,’’ and No. 1-E,
“ Puerto Ricans in the United States’’—provide data
(similar to those in the Spanish origin subject report)
for S panish surnam ed p e rso n s living in five
southwestern States and for persons of Puerto Rican
birth and parentage, respectively. All three of the
above PC(2) reports contain data for States, areas,
and places w ith su b sta n tia l Spanish a n c estry
population.
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mother tongue; year moved into present house, and
residence in 1965; school enrollment, years of school
completed; veteran status; family composition; and
fertility. Econom ic characteristics include labor
force and employment status; weeks worked in 1969;
activity 5 years ago; place of work and means of
transportation to work; occupation, industry, and
class of worker; earnings and income; and poverty
status.
In addition, data for persons of Spanish origin,
include marital history items, vocational training and
work disability. These reports also contain counts of
persons of Spanish language, of Puerto Rican birth or
parentage, and of Spanish origin.

Good sources for m ore detailed data at the
national and regional levels include the Census o f
Population; 1970, “ Detailed Characteristics, United
States Summary” (PC(l)-Dl) report and most of the
Series PC(2) Subject Reports. In addition, most of
the HC(7) Census o f Housing; 1970, Subject Reports
contain Spanish ancestry data.
Statistics at the State level are located primarily in
the individual State reports of the PC(1)-C and
PC(1)-D Series of the Census o f Population: 1970
and the PC(2)-1C, ID, and IE reports already cited as
good sources of national data.
Data on persons of Spanish ancestry at the area
and place level are located primarily in the three
PC(2) reports listed above; the PC(1)-C, PC(1)-D,
and HC(1)-B S ta te s re p o rts; and the HC(2)
M etropolitan H ousing C haracteristics reports.
Census tract data are available in the PH C(l) series,
and data for low-income areas of large cities are
presen ted in the PHC(3) C ensus Em ploym ent
Survey series as well as in report PC(2)-9B.

Information is presented in 51 State reports for
States, SMSA’s, urbanized areas, central cities, and
all places of 50,000 inhabitants or more. Also similar
data with less detail are given for these places of
10.000 to 50,000 inhabitants and counties containing
400 persons or more of Spanish heritage. A United
States summary report contains similar data for the
Nation and its four regions. An additional PC(1)-C
report, No. 53 has similar statistics, without racial or
ethnic breakouts, for Puerto Rico.

Reports from the Census of Population
and Housing: 1970
Census of Population: 1970, reports
Data on persons of Spanish ancestry are available
in two chapters of the Volume I reports of the 1970
Census of Population—Chapter “ C ” , “ General
Social and Economic Characteristics,” and Chapter
“ D ” , “ Detailed Characteristics.” Most identifier;
ho w ev er, se le c te d 5 p e rc e n t sam ple item s
cross-classified by Spanish origin are also included.
Thirty-two of the 39 Volume II Subject Reports
co n tain in fo rm atio n on the S panish a n c estry
population. Most tables in these reports use the
Spanish origin or descent identifier; however, such
identifiers as Spanish language, birth or parentage,
surname, and heritage are used in other tables.

S e rie s P C ( 1 f D , “ D e ta ile d C h a ra c te ris tic s

These reports present data on the same subject areas
as the PC(1)-C,“ G eneral Social and Econom ic
C h a ra c te ris tic s,” but w ith m ore d etailed
cross-classification. In each State report there is a
total of eight tables on nativity, mother tongue,
citizenship, and migration; five on education; 12 oh
m arital sta tu s, household c h a ra c te ristic s, and
fertility; six on labor force and employment status;
20 on occupation and industry; and 25 on income,
earnings, and poverty; among others. A United
States summary contains comparable tables for the
Nation and its regions as well as summary tables with
less detail for States, areas, and large cities. A
separate PC(1)-D report contains similar data for
Puerto Rico.
Virtually all tables contain data for the Spanish
heritage population on a Statewide basis; as well as
for SMSA’s of 250,000 or more inhabitants with at
least 25,000 persons of Spanish heritage. In a few
cases, coverage is extended to SMSA’s and cities of
100.000 inhabitants or more. Data in a few tables are
presented using the Spanish origin identifier.

Volume I (Series PC(1)), Characteristics of
the Population
S e r ie s

P C (1 )-C ,

“ G e n e ra l

S o c ia l

and

The “ General Social
and Economic Characteristics” series of reports
presents 15 percent sample data covering a wide
range of subjects according to the Spanish heritage
identifier (a few 5 percent items are presented using
the Spanish origin identifier). Among the social
characteristics covered for persons of Spanish
heritage are age; country of birth or parentage;

E c o n o m ic C h a ra c te ris tic s ’'.




All tables covering the Spanish ancestry popula­
tion contain comparable data for the black and total
population. Many of the national and statewide ta­
bles also have comparable statistics for whites.
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tal status, family size, presence of children, fertility,
place of birth, citizenship, school enrollment, educa­
tional attainment, and vocational training. Among
the economic characteristics covered in this report
are labor force participation, employment status,
o c c u p atio n , in d u stry , class of w orker, hours
w orked, weeks w orked, num ber of earners in
families, work disability, income of persons and
families, type of income, and poverty status. Among
housing c h a ra c te ristic s p rese n ted are ten u re ;
number of rooms, persons, and persons per room;
units in structure, year structure built, and presence
of complete plumbing facilities, presence of selected
equipment and appliances; and value and rent.

Volume II (Series PC(2)), Subject Reports
R e p o rt PC(2yiA, “ N a tio n a l O rig in a n d L a n ­
g u a g e ” . This report includes seven tables with so­

cial and economic characteristic data on the Spanish
language population, and nine tables with data on
persons who reported birth or parent’s birth in four
counties or areas with large Spanish speaking popu­
lations.
Table 1 has counts of persons of Spanish language
according to age, sex, and nativity status (total, na­
tive of native parentage, native of foreign or mixed
parentage, and foreign born). Four additional tables
present social and economic characteristics for per­
sons of Spanish language who are native of native
parentage, by region, in format comparable to data in
this publication on other population groups.
These characteristics, presented for broad age
groups (and often by sex) include relationship to
head of household, marital status, fertility, residence
in 1965, years of school completed, mother tongue,
labor force participation and employment status, oc­
cupation, class of worker, income of families and
unrelated individuals, and poverty status.
There are nine tables providing data on persons
with birth or parentage in Mexico, Cuba, other Na­
tions in the West Indies, and other parts of Central
and South America. Four present the same charac­
teristic data described in the preceding paragraph for
the first and second generation population from each
of these four areas. Another two tables have similar
statistics for this same population and for persons of
Spanish language in 22 separate SMSA’s while other
tables present social and economic data on persons
born in each of the four above mentioned areas ac­
cording to year of immigration to the United States.
Table 19 has information on mother tongue accord­
ing to nativity status, while the final table presents
nativity status data on family members and unrelated
individuals.

R e p o rt PC(2yiD, “ P e rs o n s o f S p a n is h S u r­
n a m e ” . “ Persons of Spanish Surname’’ provides

characteristic data similar to those in the preceding
Subject Report on persons of Spanish origin. Cover­

age, however, is limited to persons with Spanish
surnames living in the five Southwestern States of
Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and
Texas. Data for the five States combined are pre­
sented according to type of residence and nativity
status; while for individual States, information is
present by type of residence. Separate tables provide
coverage of 28 SMSA’s with 25,000 Spanish surnamed residents or more and 38 cities with 10,000 or
more.
Demographic and social characteristics presented
include race, country of origin, age, sex, type of
residence, mother tongue, marital status and family
com position item s, fertility, residence in 1965,
school enrollm ent, and educational attainm ent.
Economic data include statistics on labor force par­
ticipation and employment status; occupation, in­
dustry, and class of worker; and income of persons
and families, type of income, and poverty status.
Other data in this report are concerned with housing
c h a ra c te ristic s; in term arriage am ong those of
Spanish surname and Spanish origin; and counts of
the Spanish surnamed, by nativity, for counties and
cities.

R e p o r t P C ( 2 ) - 1 C , " P e r s o n s o f S p a n is h
O r ig in ” . Social, economic, and housing characteris­

tics of persons reporting Spanish origin or descent
are presented in this report. Many of the tables
present data separately for persons of Mexican
origin, of Puerto Rican origin, and of Cuban origin,
for the United States, each of 13 States having
100,000 persons or more of Spanish origin, and 29
SM SA ’s and 31 cities with respective Spanish
inhabitants of 50,000 or more and 25,000 or more.
Information is provided on age, sex, race, type of
residence, household and family relationship, mari­




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PC(2yiE, “ P u e rto R ic a n s in th e U n ­
This Subject Report presents charac­
teristic data for persons of Puerto Rican birth or
parentage. The social, econom ic, and housing
characteristics covered are similar to those included
in the PC(2)-1D report on persons of Spanish sur­
name. These include race, age, sex, type of resi­
dence, mother tongue various marital and family
characteristics, education, labor force participation,
R e p o rt

ite d S ta te s ” .

residence in 1970 for persons of Spanish heritage.
One table presents the num ber of native born
Spanish heritage persons by sex and age, according
to whether living in State of birth/or State of 1965
residence or both; as well as the 1965 to 1970
migration status of the foreign born. The other table
presents, by sex, the number of Spanish heritage
persons according to geographic division of 1970
residence, by division of 1965 residence, by division
of birth.

em ploym ent characteristics, income item s, and
selected housing data.
Presentation is at four levels of detail, with the
most detail provided for the Nation, regions, and
States with 10,000 Puerto Ricans or more. Less de­
tail is provided for SMSA’s and cities with 25,000
Puerto Ricans or more; while for the SMSA’s with
10,000 to 25,000 and the cities with 5,000 to 25,000
similar data are provided, but without the distinction
between birth and parentage made for the larger
areas and places. In addition, counts by race, sex,
and type of residence are furnished for every State.

R e p o r t PC(2y3A, “ W o m e n b y N u m b e r o f
C h ild re n E v e r B o r n ” . This report contains 10 tables

pertaining to the fertility of women of Spanish origin.
Number of children ever born is cross-tabulated by
such social characteristics as age, type of residence,
race and Spanish origin of husband by that of wife,
region of birth, and years of school completed. In
addition, fertility data are presented according to
such economic items as labor force participation,
family income, and residence in low-income areas of
26 individual large cities. Separate tables include a
limited amount of data for 15 SMSA’s with 100,000
persons or more of Spanish origin fertility according
to Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban origin; and
d a ta for w om en of Spanish origin in five
Southwestern States.

R e p o rt P C (2 )-2 A , “ S ta te o f B ir th ” . Data on
migration of native persons of Spanish origin are
provided by sex according to the region, divisions,
and State of birth and of 1970 residence. The greatest
detail is found in two tables listing, by sex, division
and State of 1970 residence tabulated by region, divi­
sion, and State of birth. Data on population gains
(and losses) through in te rsta te m ovem ent and
limited information on migration by age are included
among other tables.
R e p o rt PC(2y2B, “ M o b ility fo r S ta te s a n d the
N a t io n ” . Although this publication contains no

separate data for persons of Spanish ancestry, table
55 co n tain s d a ta for the to ta l po p u latio n . It
cross-tabulates States of residence in 1970 by
country of residence in 1965. Countries (or areas)
listed include Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canal Zone,
other N orth Am erica (exclusive of areas listed
above, Canada, and the United States), and South
America.

R e p o r t PC(2y4A, “ F a m ily C o m p o s itio n ” . This
report furnishes social and economic data according
to family composition as well as information on
various types of families and subfamilies. Among
the aspects of family composition presented for
families headed by persons of Spanish origin are type
and size of family; number of own children by age;
ages of oldest and youngest children in the family;

R e p o rt P C (2 y 2 C , “ M o b ility fo r M e tro p o lita n
A r e a s ” . Information on persons of Spanish ancestry

and presence of parents, grandchildren, subfamilies,

is very limited in this report—covering only six
central cities. The final six pages include tables on
the p o v e rty sta tu s and the re c e ip t of public
assistance income, of persons 5 years old and over,
according to place of birth, and residence in 1965 for
persons of Spanish heritage. The Spanish ancestry
population included in these tables are persons of
Spanish language in C hicago, D e tro it, and
Washington, D.C.; persons of Spanish language or
surname in Los Angeles; and persons of Puerto
R ican b irth or p a re n tag e in N ew Y ork and
Philadelphia.

and nonrelatives.
Social characteristics by which Spanish origin
families are classified in this report include age and
sex of head, marital status of head, age and year of
first marriage, and the educational attainment of the
head. E conom ic ch aracteristics include m ajor
occupation group of head, hours worked by head,
and income of head and family in 1969. Most of these
data are presented for the United States and urban
areas; however some tables include additional type
of residence categories and separate tabulations for
the South and West regions.

PC(2y2D, “ L if e t im e a n d R e c e n t
This report includes two tables with
statistics on birthplace, residence in 1965, and

R e p o r t PC(2y4C, “ M a r ita lS t a t u s ” . Twotables
of this publication present data on the Spanish
ancestry population—both are concerned with

R e p o rt
M ig r a tio n ” .




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language according to enrollment status, year of
school in which enrolled, and relative progress in
school, by age and sex. Four additional tables
contain characteristic data on those aged 16 to 26 not
enrolled in school.
Characteristic items covered among these tables
include education of mother and father, occupation
of parents, family income, migration status, marital
status, labor force status, and number of brothers
and sisters. Two of the tables present characteristics
of college stu d e n ts, including d a ta on living
arrangem ents and veteran status. Two separate
tables include data on persons born in Mexico; one of
these also has enrollment information on second
generation Mexican Americans.
Most of the tabulations are also presented for
persons of Spanish language living in central cities of
urbanized areas, in urbanized areas outside central
cities, and rural areas. Some tables present separate
data on persons of Spanish language in the five
Southwestern States.

intermarriage. One table presents data on persons of
Mexican, Puerto Rican, and other Spanish origin
according to the Spanish origin and race of spouse by
sex, decade first married, and type of residence for
the United States. The other table presents some
intermarriage data for persons of Spanish heritage,
native bom of native parentage, of Spanish heritage
and of Puerto Rican birth or parentage according to
age of husband and type of residence. Both tables
contain limited data for regions of the United States.
R e p o rt P C (2 )-4 D , “A g e a t F irs t M a r r ia g e “ .

This report contains statistics on persons of Spanish
origin 14 to 79 years old by age at first marriage. Four
tables have data on persons of Spanish origin by sex
and age in 1970, according to age at the time of first
marriage as well as cumulative percentages persons
whose first marriage was prior to reaching selected
years of age. Groups for which data are presented
include all persons of Spanish origin—Puerto Rican,
Cuban, Central and South American, and other
Spanish origin—for the United States; all persons of
Spanish and persons of Puerto Rican origin in New
York City; and all whites of Spanish origin and
Mexican origin in the five southwestern States.
Two additional tables are provided. One presents
data on age of first marriage, by age in 1970, and sex,
for persons bom in Mexico. The other provides data
on age of first marriage, by educational attainment,
by age in 1970, and sex, for all persons of Spanish
origin in the United States, in urbanized areas, and in
the South.

R e p o rt P C (2 y 5 B , “ E d u c a tio n a l A tta in m e n t’’.

“ E ducational A ttain m e n t,” unlike the Subject
Report on school enrollment, has no data on the
Spanish ancestry population, other than some
figures on persons of Latin Am erican birth or
parentage in table 1. These data include distributions
of years of school completed according to age, sex,
and type of residence.
R e p o r t P C (2 )-5 C ,

R e p o r t P C (2)~ 4 E , “ P e rs o n s In In s titu tio n s
a n d O th e r G ro u p Q u a r te r s ’’. This publication

includes occasional data on persons of Spanish
origin living in group quarters. Inform ation on
inm ates of institutions includes national counts
according to age, sex, type of residence, and type of
control of institution for each of eight types of
institution. Separate data are provided for persons of
Mexican origin and Puerto Rican Rican origin. In
addition, counts of inmates of Spanish origin are
fu rn ish ed at the S tate level for each type of
institution. Counts of the noninstitutional population
in group quarters are also provided for the Nation
and States.
R e p o rt P C (2 )-5 A ,

T r a in in g ’ ’.

R e p o rt P C (2 y 6 A , “ E m p lo y m e n t S ta tu s a n d
W o rk E x p e r ie n c e ’’. This report contains data on

labor force participation and employment status and
on weeks worked in 1969. Data on the labor force
participation and the employment status of persons
of Spanish origin are presented by age, sex, type of
residence, school enrollm ent, and educational
attainment. A separate table on residence in 1965
furnishes labor force data according to the Spanish
heritage identifier. Tables on weeks worked in 1969,
included data on persons of Spanish origin according

" S c h o o l E n r o ll m e n t ’ ’.

Nationwide data on school enrollment of the Spanish
ancestry population are included in this publication.
Seven of its 17 statistical tables present social and
economic characteristics of persons of Spanish




“ Vocational

This re p o rt p r e s e n ts d e ta ile d s ta tis tic s on a
nationwide basis according to field of vocational
training. Published tables include data for persons of
Spanish origin by sex and often by age, according to
educational attainment, labor force and employment
sta tu s , o c c u p a tio n , in d u stry , and earn in g s.
Comparable data are shown in each table for persons
who have never completed a vocational training
program.

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R e p o r tP C (2 y 7 A , “ O c c u p a tio n a l C h a ra c te ris ­

to age, sex, type of residence, school enrollment,
educational attainment, labor force participation and
enrollment status.

“ O ccupational C haracteristics’’ provides
statistics for persons of Spanish origin according to
d etailed o c c u p atio n (up to 441 se p ara te
occupational categories). For the experienced labor
force, occupation is cross-tabulated by age and sex,
residence in 1965, type of residence, marital status,
school enrollment, educational attainment, weeks
w orked in 1969, earnings, family incom e, and
poverty status. Characteristics of employed persons
include age and sex, hours worked, and class of
worker. All data are presented at the national level
only.
t ic s ” .

R e p o rt P C (2 )-6 B t “ P e rs o n s N o t E m p lo y e d ” .

Data on the characteristics of persons of Spanish
origin who are not employed (persons either not in
the labor force or those in the labor force but
unemployed) are provided in most tables of this
report according to age, sex, and year last worked.
S ubjects co v ered include type of resid e n ce ,
household relationship, marital status, presence and
age of children, school enrollment and educational
a tta in m e n t, lab o r force p a rtic ip a tio n and
employment status, occupation, activity in 1965 and
low-income status. Statistics are provided at the
national level only.

R e p o r t P C (2 )-7 B , “ In d u s tr ia l C h a r a c te r is ­

“ Industrial Characteristics’’ presents data on
persons of Spanish origin, by sex, for the experi­
enced labor force and the employment according to
industry. Information is provided for 227 separate
industries in some table and 87 in others. Among
characteristics of the experienced labor force clas­
sified by industry are age, educational attainment,
type of residence, region of residence in 1965. Also
used are weeks worked in 1969, hours worked during
the week prior to the date of the 1970 Census, total
earnings, wage and salary earnings, and family in­
come. Statistics for employed Spanish origin per­
sons include age, class of worker, and hours worked.
Separate tables provide inform ation on such
characteristics as sex, educational attainm ent,
weeks worked, and marital status, according to class
of worker and whether employed in agriculture, for
the experienced labor force. For the employed, class
of worker statistics are furnished according to age,
sex, and hours worked.

tic s ” .

R e p o r t P C ( 2 ) - 6 C , “ P e r s o n s W ith W o r k
D is a b ility ” . Characteristics of persons 18 to 64 years

old according to presence, and length of work
disability are presented in this publication. Six of its
13 tables include data on persons of Spanish origin
according to age, sex, type of residence, type of
family, presence of related children under 18, labor
force participation, employment status, occupation,
work experience, and earnings. Some of these tables
permit comparison of characteristics of those with
no, partial, or total work disability.
R e p o rt

P C (2 )-6 D ,

“ J o u rn e y

to

W o rk ” .

“ Journey to W ork’’ presents data for workers 16
years of age and o ver, classified by place of
residence and place of work for large SMSA’s and
th eir c o n s titu e n t p a rts . S ocial and econom ic
characteristic data are presented only for the total
population; however place of residence by place
of work tabulations are provided for Spanish ances­
try workers. These counts are available for persons
of Spanish language living or working in each of the
124 SMSA’s of 250,000 inhabitants or more in 1970.

R e p o rt P C (2 )-7 C , “ O c c u p a tio n b y In d u s try ” .

This re p o rt p re se n ts
n atio n al sta tistic s
cross-classifying occupation by industry. One table
contains data for persons of Spanish origin. This
detailed table has 102 occupational classification
items for men, 65 for women for each of 55 industrial
classification items.

R e p o r t P C (2 )-6 E , “ V e te r a n s ” . This report
contains inform ation on the characteristics of
civilian male veterans, by age and period of service.
Statistics covering veterans of Spanish language
include data on living arrangements, household and
family status, martial status, number of children,
size of family, and years of school completed. They
also include data on labor force participation,
employment status, occupation, weeks worked,
class of worker, income and earnings, geographic
mobility, and selected housing characteristics.




R e p o r t P C (2 )-7 D , “ G o v e r n m e n t W o rk e rs ” .

This report presents characteristics of persons who
worked in Government at the time of 1970 Census.
Fifteen tables include data for persons of Spanish
origin. Information is provided for all government
workers, and many tables have separate breakouts
for each level of government (Federal, State, local).
Am ong c h a ra c te ris tic s for S panish origin
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government workers are sex and age, occupation,
industry, weeks and hours worked, wage and salary
ea rn in g s, fam ily incom e, and e d u c atio n a l
a tta in m e n t. S ev eral of the tab les co n tain
considerable cross-classification.

This report presents statistics
pertaining to farm income as measured by farm
self-employment income, and value of farm products
sold. Statistics for the Spanish origin population are
shown for the United States and the State of Texas.
Farm self-em ploym ent incom e is tab u la te d
according to the total incom e of fam ilies and
unrelated individuals, age of family head and persons
14 and older; sex of persons 14 and older; size of
family, presence of children under 18; and school
enrollment status. It is tabulated also according to
educational attainment of family heads and persons
over 14; employment status, occupation, and weeks
worked of family heads, wives, and all persons 14
and over; number of earners in families; source and
amount of income for families and persons 14 and
over; and the wage and salary income of wives.
Many of these same items and selected housing
characteristics are also presented according to value
of farm products sold by rural farm households.

R e la te d P o p u l a t i o n

R e p o r t P C (2 )-7 F f “ O c c u p a tio n o f P e rs o n s
w ith H ig h E a r n i n g s This Subject Report contains

two tables with statistical data on persons of Spanish
origin who reported 1969 earnings of $15,000 or
more. Information is presented for the experienced
civilian labor force according to detailed occupation,
sex, age, and seven levels of earnings.
R e p o rt
P C (2 )-7 E ,
“ O c c u p a t io n
and
R e s id e n c e in 1 9 6 5 “ . Occupation in 1970 of persons

of Spanish origin is cross-classified by occupation in
1965 according to sex and age in 1970 in two tables of
this report. Two other tables provide comparable
cross-classification by industry in 1970 and 1965.
Although tabulations on the geographic mobility of
persons of Spanish origin are not provided in this
publication, limited data on the 1965-70 migration of
persons of Spanish heritage appear in Subject
Reports PC(2)-2C and 2D.

R e p o rt P C (2 )-9 A , “ L o w -In c o m e P o p u la tio n “ .

“ L ow -Incom e P o p u la tio n ” p re s e n ts d etailed
cross-classifications of data for persons and families
of all incom e levels and incom es below the
low-income (poverty) level. Information is given on
such social characteristics of the Spanish origin
population as age, sex, type of residence, size of
place of residence, place of birth, family status, type
of family, marital status, presence and age of related
children, fertility, school enrollment and relative
p ro g re ss in school, ed u c atio n a l a tta in m e n t,
vocational training. It is given also on such economic
c h a ra c te ris tic s as lab o r force p a rtic ip a tio n ,
employment status, occupation, presence of work
disability, weeks worked in 1969, earnings, number
of earners in family, and level and sources of income.
A sep arate table p resen ts d ata on the near
poor—including those whose earnings would not be
sufficient to bring his or her family above the
low-income level, and those who would fall below
that level if social security public assistance income
were rem oved. A final table presents selected
housing characteristics according to low-income
status. Tables with information on the Spanish origin
population are at the national level only.

R e p o rt P C (2 )-8 A , “ S o u rc e s a n d S tru c tu re o f
F a m ily I n c o m e This report devotes a portion of

one table to the income structure (distribution,
mean, and median) of families headed by persons of
Spanish origin. Income statistics are presented at the
national level, according to the type of family, age of
family head, and number of earners, according to
typo of residence. No data are presented as to the
source of Spanish origin income.
R e p o rt P C (2 )-8 B , “ E a rn in g s b y O c c u p a tio n
a n d E d u c a tio n “ . Nine tables in this report provide

data on 1969 earnings for persons of Spanish origin or
descent according to age, sex, region, occupation,
work experience, and education. Statistics are
provided for five age groups, six levels of education,
and up to 37 occupational groupings for all with work
experience in 1969, as well as for those who worked
50-52 weeks that year.
The greatest detail is provided for men 25 to 64
years old (37 occupations), and women in the same
age group (30 occupations), nationwide; while 12
broad occupational categories are used in the
national tabulations for Spanish Americans 18 to 24,
and 65 and over, as well as for all regional data.
R e p o rt P C (2 )-8 C




,

R e p o r t P C ( 2 ) - 9 B , “ L o w - In c o m e A re a s in
L a rg e C itie s ” . This publication contains data for the

50 largest cities (individually and combined) and the
four largest boroughs in New York City. This report
includes data for persons of Spanish language and
include counts of those living in each city and six

“ In c o m e o f th e F a r m

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aggregates of census tracts within the city according
to the percent of persons below the poverty level in
1969.
The bulk of the data, however, consists of the
presentation of characteristics for the total city,
those areas with census tracts with a poverty rate of
20 percent or more, and the remainder of the city.
These characteristics include age, sex, place of birth,
residence in 1965, relationship to household head,
family status, presence and living arrangements of
children, size of family fertility, school enrollment,
years of school completed, labor force participation,
employment status, occupation, place of work and
means of transportation to work, income, type of
income, difference between income and poverty
level, ratio of income to poverty level, and selected
housing items.
Similar data for persons of Spanish language
residing in individual low-income neighborhoods of
49 of these cities have been subsequently published
in the Supplementary Reports series—PC(S1),
report Nos. 65-103.

Volume VII reports (HC(7)) contain national and
som e regional d ata according to the Spanish
language identifier (except one which has data for
Spanish heritage households). No Spanish ancestry
data are available in the HC(1)-A, HC(3), HC(4),
HC(5), and HC(6) series of reports.
Volume I (Series HC(1)), Housing
Characteristics for States, Cities, and
Counties
S e rie s H C (1 )-B , “ D e ta ile d H o u s in g C h a ra c ­
te ris tic s ’’. This series of reports contains informa­

tion on housing occupied by persons of Spanish
heritage for SMSA’s, urbanized areas, cities and
other places of 2,500 or more inhabitants, and coun­
ties. Data for persons of Spanish ancestry at the
State and National levels are not published in these
reports; and coverage for places smaller than 50,000
inhabitants and for nonmetropolitan counties is not
provided unless the Spanish heritage population is
400 or more.
Subjects covered include tenure (owner or renter
occupied); year moved in; utilization characteristics
(number of rooms, number of persons, and persons
per room ); and s tru c tu ra l and plum bing
characteristics (kitchen and plumbing facilities,
bathrooms, year structure built, number of units in
structure, access to unit, source of water, and means
of sewage disposal). Also included are equipment
items (heating and air conditioning equipment, and
availability of telephone); automobile availability;
and financial characteristics (value and rent).

R e p o rt P C (2 )-1 0 B , “ S ta te E c o n o m ic A re a s ’’.

This report includes statistics on the general social
and economic characteristics of persons of Spanish
heritage in each of the 510 State economic areas into
which the Nation is divided. State economic areas
are relatively homogenous subdivisions of States.
They consist of single counties or groups of counties
w hich have sim ilar econom ic and social
chacteristics. Appendix A to this Subject Report
contains more information on the definition of these
areas.
The data are essentially geographic consolidations
of selected county tabulations previously published
in the PC(1)-C series of reports for the 50 States and
the District of Columbia. Characteristics covered are
age and sex, household relationship, fertility and
p rese n c e o f c h ild ren , school e n ro llm en t and
educational attainment, labor force and employment
sta tu s, occu p atio n and in d u stry of em ployed
workers, source and level of income, and incidence
of poverty.

Volume II (Series HC(2)), Metropolitan
Housing Characteristics
This series of reports consists of one report for
each of the 247 standard metropolitan statistical
areas recognized in the 1970 census. The SMSA
re p o rts c o n tain c o n sid e rab le d etail and
cross-classification of data with regard to housing
occupied by the Spanish heritage population. A
summary report for the United States and regions
was also issued for this series; however it does not
include any data on this population group.
Characteristic items include most of the housing
items previously listed for the HC(1)-B series of
reports, and such population items as type of family,
income of families and primary individuals, and year
moved in. Information for Spanish heritage occupied
housing is given for each SMSA, central city, and
place of 50,000 inhabitants or more provided the area

Census of Housing: 1970, reports
Three series of reports in the housing census
provide data for p erso n s of Spanish ancestry
Chapter B of Volume I (HC(l)-B), and Volume II
(HC(2)), provide statistical information for SMSA’s,
urbanized areas, places, and counties according to
the Spanish heritage identifier. Seven of the nine



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suburban places of 25,000 or more, and the 32,169
census tracts in SMSA’s as well as 604 tracts lying
outside SMSA’s.
For each census tract, counts are provided for the
number of persons of Spanish language, persons not
of Spanish language but with a Spanish surname
(only in reports for SMSA’s in the Southwest), per­
sons of Spanish m other tongue, and persons of
Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban, and “ other Ameri­
can” birth or parentage. The characteristics listed
below, however, are provided only for those tracts
with 400 persons or more of Spanish heritage.
Population items covered in this series are age by
sex, household relationship, school enrollm ent,
educational attainment, residence in 1965, employ­
m ent status, occupation, incom e, and poverty.
Housing data include ownership status, rooms, per­
sons, persons per room, value and rent, number of
units in structure, year moved in, selected equip­
ment, and automobile availability.
R ep o rt N o. 29 of the PC(S1) se rie s,
Supplementary Reports, “ Population and Housing
Characteristics for the United States, by State:
1970,” presents State and national data with the
same table format as the Census Tracts reports pub­
lications. The tables in this report thus provide a
convenient means for users of the tract data to make
comparisons with national and State data on the
same subjects.
C onsistent with the definition of the Spanish
heritage identifier, the Census Tracts reports for
SM SA’s in the five southwestern States present
characteristics for those of Spanish language or sur­
name. However, five reports in the PC(S1) Sup­
plementary Reports series furnish identically for­
m atted Spanish an cestry tables for persons of
Spanish surname o n ly -a n identifier used for the five
State area in previous censuses. These reports are:

or place had a 25,000 inhabitants or more of Spanish
heritage in 1970.
Volume VII (Series HC(7)), Subject Reports
The Census o f Housing: 1970, Subject Reports
consist of nine publications, each of which presents
statistics on a particular subject area. Seven of these
reports contain a large number of detailed housing
characteristic items and occasional population items
for households headed by persons of Spanish ances­
try.
These seven reports are:
HC(7)-1
tion’’
HC(7)-2
HC(7)-3
HC(7)-4
tory’’
HC(7)-5
HC(7)-6
HC(7)-7

“ Housing Characteristics by Household Composi­
“Housing of Senior Citizens’’
“ Space Utilization of the Housing Inventory’’
“ Structural Characteristics of the Housing Inven­
“ Mover Households’’
“ Mobile Homes’’
“ Geographic Aspects of the Housing Inventory’’

Report HC(7)-1 provides tabulations using the
Spanish heritage identifier, while the six other re­
ports have data for persons of Spanish ancestry iden­
tified as persons of Spanish language. Each report
presents data at the national level with detailed
cross-classification of items, and most include in­
formation according to type of residence and/or re­
gion or both. Housing of senior citizens has some
additional tabulations at the State, area, and place
levels.
One or more of the Subject Reports include such
population characteristics as number of persons in
household; age, sex, education, marital status, labor
force status, occupation, industry, veteran status,
residence in 1965, and income of household head.
They include also the number of children, and pres­
ence of children under specified ages, of non­
relatives, and of persons over specified ages, as well
as income of households, families, and primary indi­
viduals.
Information regarding the availability of any of
these population characteristics (as well as 20 hous­
ing items) in individual reports can be found in table
B-6 of appendix B of this directory.

PC(Sl)-57, “ Characteristics of the Spanish Surname Population
by Census Tract, for SMSA’s in Arizona: 1970.’’
PC(Sl)-58, “ Characteristics of the Spanish Surname Population
by Census Tract, for SMSA’s in California: 1970.’’
PC(Sl)-59, “ Characteristics of the Spanish Surname Population
by Census Tract, for SMSA’s in Colorado; 1970.’’
PC(Sl)-60, “ Characteristics of the Spanish Surname Population
by Census Tract, for SMSA’s in New Mexico:
1970.’’
PC(S1)-61, “ Characteristics of the Spanish Surname Population
by Census Tract for SMSA’s in Texas: 1970.’’

Joint population-housing reports

Series PHC(3), Employment Profiles of
Selected Low-Income Areas

Series PHC(1), Census Tracts
The Census Tracts reports contain data on popula­
tion and housing characteristics for 241 standard
metropolitan statistical areas, their central cities,



This series of 76 reports covers 68 selected lowincome areas. Sixty are in 51 large cities, and eight
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are in rural areas. In addition, there are eight sum­
mary reports including a United States summary for
the urban areas. The data in these reports are from a
separate survey (the Census Employment Survey)
conducted late 1970 and early 1971 as part of the
overall program of the 1970 decennial census.
Data on persons of Spanish ancestry shown in
these reports are based on the birth or parentage and
the language identifiers. Tabulations are presented
for low-income areas in which 5 percent or more of
the total population is “ white Spanish.” “ White
Spanish” is defined as a white with either his birth or
the birth of one or both parents in Puerto Rico,
Mexico, Cuba, or another Latin American country,
or with Spanish as the language spoken most often in
his home as a child. In the report (No. 3) on Puerto
Ricans in New York City, the tabulations include
Puerto Ricans of all races. A total of 30 of the urban
reports and two of the rural reports have general
social and economic characteristic data on the
“ white Spanish” population; while 14 of the urban
and one of the rural reports contain detailed tabula­
tions. The detailed tabulations are provided for areas
in which 20 percent or more of the total population is
“ white Spanish.”
All tables present data by sex (or sex of family
head) for the civilian noninstitutional population 16
years old or over, and the detailed tables contain
numerous cross-classifications of data by age, years
of school completed, and other characteristics.
Among the subjects covered in these tables are
age; marital and family status; number of persons,
children, and earners in families; educational at­
tainment and job training; labor force and employ­
ment status, and extent of unemployment; occupa­
tion and industry; hourly, weekly, and annual earn­
ings; sources and structure of family income, and
extent of poverty; place of work, and method and
cost of transporation to work; desire for work of
those not in the labor force and reasons for not seek­
ing work; reasons for leaving last job; job-seeking
methods; lowest acceptable pay; expenses for mort­
gage, rent, and utilities; installment debt; and resi­
dential mobility.

have been issued on population and housing sub­
jects, respectively. More will be published through­
out the 1970’s. Most reports are reprints of one or
more entire tables or parts of tables found in larger
final report publications. In regard to the Spanish
ancestry population, 44 reports of the PC(S1) series
contain data in other 1970 census publications. One
other report (PC(Sl)-30) consolidates data from
numerous other reports.
R e p o r t N o . 29 “ P o p u la tio n a n d H o u s in g
C h a ra c te ris tic s fo r th e U n ite d S ta te s , b y S ta te :

1970.” Data for persons of Spanish heritage for the

United States and each of the States are presented in
a format comparable to that of the population and
housing data items in the PH C(l) series of Census
tract reports.
R e p o rt N o . 30 ” P e rs o n s o f S p a n is h A n c e s ­

This report presents population counts accord­
ing to the various Spanish ancestry identifiers. Data
are shown for the N ation, regions, States, and
SMSA’s (and central cities). The data herein do ap­
pear in other census reports; however, this report
presents material which could otherwise be obtained
only by consulting 52 separate PC(1)-C reports. A
Spanish language edition of this report, PC(Sl)-305,
is also available.

try .”

R e p o r t N o . 53 “ R e s id e n c e in

R e p o r t N o . 57 “ C h a r a c t e r is t ic s o f th e
S p a n is h S u rn a m e P o p u la tio n b y C e n s u s Tract,
fo r S M S A ’s in A riz o n a : 1970.” This is one of five

Supplementary Reports which presents data for per­
sons of Spanish surname in the SMSA’s of the five
southwestern States. It supplements reports in the
PH C(l) Census Tracts series in which data were
published for persons of Spanish heritage (persons of
Spanish language or surname). Tables in these five
reports are identical in format to Tables P-7, P-8, and
H-5 of the PH C(l) reports. Reports PC(Sl)-58, 59,
60, and 61, provide coverage of the Spanish surname
population for SMSA’s in California, Colorado, New
Mexico, and Texas, respectively.

Supplementary Reports
Series PC(S1), population Supplementary
Reports
Supplementary Reports are two open-ended series
of reports on individual subjects from the 1970 cen­
sus. To date, 103 PC(S1), and 20 PC(S1), reports




1965 f o r

This report presents corrected
data on residence in 1965 for 48 SMSA’s. Its contents
replace comparable figures in the 48 individual
PH C (l) Census tract reports for the designated
SMSA’s, most of which are in the New England
States. Tables include data for persons of Spanish
heritage.

S e le c te d A re a s .”

R e p o r ts N o . 6 5 t h r o u g h N o .

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103 “ L o w -

In c o m e N e ig h b o rh o o d s in L a rg e C itie s : 1 97 0 ”

These 39 Supplementary Reports contain data on
individual low-income neighborhoods in 49 of the
N ation’s 50 largest cities. Low-income neighbor­
hoods are subdivisions of low-income areas, which
include all census tracts in which 20 percent or more
of all persons were below the low-income level in
1969. These low-income neighborhoods generally
consist of contiguous census tracts with a combined
population of 20,000 or m ore; and the number of such
neighborhoods in these cities range from 2 to 35. The
low-income area of one city, Honolulu, was not di­
vided into neighborhoods.
Characteristic items on the social, economic, and
housing conditions of persons of Spanish language
residing in neighborhoods covered in these Sup­
plementary Reports are similar to those published in
Subject Report PC(2)-9B, Low-Income Areas of
Large Cities. Six of the seven tables have identical
format, providing comparability of the neighborhood
data in the PC(S 1) reports with data published for the
entire city, the entire low-income area, and the bal­
ance of the city published in PC(2)-9B.
PC(S1) Reports on low-income neighborhoods in large cities1
Report
number
Cities
65
Atlanta, Ga.
66
Baltimore, Md.
67
Birmingham, Ala.
68
Boston, Mass.
69
Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y.
70
Chicago, 111.
71
Cincinnati, Ohio
72
Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio
73
Columbus, Ohio
74
Dallas and Fort Worth, Tex.
75
Denver, Colo.
76
Detroit, Mich.
77
El Paso, Tex.
78
Houston, Tex.
79
Indianapolis, Ind.
80
Jacksonville and Tampa, Fla.
81
Kansas City, Mo.
82
Los Angeles and LongBeach, Calif.
83
Louisville, Ky.
84
Memphis and Nashville-Davidson, Tenn.
85
Miami, Fla.
86
Milwaukee, Wis.
87
Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.
88
Newark, N.J.
89
New Orleans, La.
90
New York, N.Y.
91
Norfolk, Va.
92
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla.
93
Omaha, Nebr.
94
Philadelphia, Pa.
95
Phoenix, Ariz.
96
Pittsburgh, Pa.
97
Portland, Oreg.




Report
number
Cities
98
St. Louis, Mo.
99
San Antonio, Tex.
100
San Diego and San Jose, Calif.
101
San Francisco and Oakland, Calif.
102
Seattle, Wash.
103
Washington, D.C.
*No low-income neighborhoods were defined within the lowincome area of Honolulu, Hawaii.

Reports from the Current Population
Survey
More than 20 publications in the Current Popula­
tion Reports series include information on persons of
Spanish origin. Most of these are in the P-20 series.
Several of the Current Population Reports either are
advance data releases or contain only limited data on
this minority group. Seven of the P-20 reports in­
clude considerable data on the Spanish ancestry
population—Numbers 264, 250, 249, 226, 224, 221,
and 213.
In addition, two publications in the BLS Special
Labor Force Reports series (Nos. 158 and 155) in­
clude limited data on persons of Spanish origin.
Perhaps more noteworthy, however, is the fact
that beginning in April 1974, a limited amount of CPS
data on the labor force and employment status of
persons of Spanish origin are being published by the
BLS on a quarterly basis in Em ployment and Earn­
ings. These data are based on the continuing ethnic
origin identification item added to the CPS in March
1973, mentioned earlier in this section. An article
introducing the series and providing 1973 averages
appeared in the April 1974 issue of the Monthly
Labor Review.

Data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment and Earnings
This monthly publication began presenting quar­
terly employment data on the Spanish origin popula­
tion in the April 1974 issue. These data, consisting of
one table in the January, April, July, and October
issues, include, population, labor force participa­
tion, and employment status for the total 16 years old
and over Spanish origin population, men 20 years
and over, women 20 and over, and both sexes com­
bined 16 to 19 years old. The number employed in
agriculture and non-agricultural industries are also
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social and economic characteristics. These include
age, type of residence, marital status, age at first
marriage, relationship to household head, interval
since first marriage, interval since latest birth, ex­
pected date of next birth, years of school completed,
labor force participation, and family income. Some
data are also presented on husbands of women in
husband-wife families—years of school completed,
employment status, occupation, and income.
Data according to specific Spanish origin (Mexi­
can, Puerto Rican, other) are not included in this
report; but some fertility statistics for these indi­
vidual groups appear in P-20, No. 226, “ Fertility
Variations by Ethnic Origin: Novem ber 1969.”
These 1969 data are tabulated according to age, mari­
tal status, type of residence, household relationship,
educational attainment, labor force status, occupa­
tion, and income.

provided for each of these groups. This table (No.
A-60) also includes comparable data for the total
population, whites, and blacks.
An article introducing this data series appeared
in the A pril 1974 M o n th ly L a b o r R eview
(MLR)—“ Employment and Unemployment Among
Americans of Spanish Origin” (MLR Reprint No.
2957). This article also provides 1973 annual aver­
ages for the items enumerated above as well as for
major activity of persons not in the labor force, addi­
tional age detail on labor force participation and un­
employment, occupation, and unemployment rates
by occupation of experienced workers.
Special Labor Force Reports
R e p o rt N o . 158, “ E m p lo y m e n t o f S c h o o l-A g e
Y o u th : O c to b e r 1 9 7 2 ” . This report presents a li­

mited amount of data on the labor force participation
and employment status of Spanish origin youth (ages
16-24) according to sex and school enrollm ent
status. These are covered in various tables which
were included in the text of the article as it appeared
in the Septem ber 1973, M onthly Labor Review.
None of the 12 supplementary tables appearing in
this Special Lab or Force Report contains Spanish
origin data.

Series P-20, No. 264, “Persons o f Spanish
Origin in the United States: March 1973” . This re­
port contains 12 text tables and 14 detailed tables
with demographic, social, and economic data from
the March 1973 Current Population Survey. Charac­
teristic items covered include age, type of residence,
marital and family status, type and size of family,
presence of children, educational attainment, em­
ploym ent status, occupation, incom e, and lowincome status.
Most tables present national level data on indi­
vidual Spanish origin ethnic groups—M exican,
Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Central or South Ameri­
can as well as the Spanish origin total. Published
detail for the individual groups is limited to reason­
able levels of sampling variability; thus tables with
considerable cross-tabulation may include ethnic
data only for the largest group(s). Some population
and age data are also presented for the five south­
western States (combined) and for three individual
States. A text discussion provides a summary of the
data as well as information on the comparability of
the March 1973 data with those from earlier Current
Population Surveys and the 1970 Census of Popula­
tion: 1970.
Similar data for the Spanish origin population from
the March 1971 and 1972 Surveys are contained in
P-20, No. 250. Most of its tables are in a format
identical with those in the 1973 report. However the
earlier report includes language data not presented in
No. 264; whereas this more recent report includes
low-income status, not covered in earlier P-20 re­
ports. Many of the 1971-72 data are also included in
Series P-20, No. 249, “ Characteristics of the Popula­
tion by Ethnic Origin,” which has statistics on

R e p o rt N o . 155, “ E m p lo y m e n t o f H ig h S c h o o l
G ra d u a te s a n d D ro p o u ts : O c to b e r 1 9 7 2 ” . This is

the first Special Labor Force Report to contain
statistical data on persons of Spanish origin. It pres­
ents em ploym ent inform ation of Spanish origin
youth age 16 to 24 according to high school gradua­
tion status. Characteristics covered include age, sex,
labor force participation, employment status, occu­
pation, and industry. These data are included in
three of the six text tables which appeared in the June
1973, Monthly Labor Review. None of this report’s
14 supplemental tables contains Spanish origin data.
Data published by the Bureau of the Census
Current Population Reports
S e rie s

P-20,

No.

265,

“F e rtility E x p e c ta tio n s

This is the first
Current Population Report to contain detailed fertil­
ity data on women of Spanish origin or descent. A
limited amount of data on this subject has previously
appeared in P-20, Nos. 226 and 254. Statistics on
fertility and expectations of future births are cross
tabulated in No. 265 according to a large number of

o f A m e ric a n W o m e n : J u n e 1 9 7 3 ” .




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Spanish origin persons as well as seven other ethnic
groups. Advance data from the March 1974 CPS
have been released in P-20, No. 267, “ Persons of
Spanish Origin in the United States: March 1974”
(an advance report), a seven-page publication, which
will soon be superceded by a more detailed presenta­
tion.

sons in 1972 according to enrollment in 1971, and
relative progress in school.
Series P-20, No. 257, “ Undergraduate En­
rollm ent in 2-Year and 4-Year College: October
1972” . This report contains limited data on the col­

lege enrollment of Spanish origin persons 14 to 34
years old. These statistics are found in one of the text
tables presenting enrollment according to type of
college, and year in college.

Listing o f “Persons o f Spanish Origin ’’ Reports in the P-20 Series
Report
Title
and
Notes
number
267

264

259

250

238

224

213

195

“ Persons of Spanish Origin
in the United States;
March 1974“
“ Persons of Spanish Origin
in the United States:
March 1973“
“ Persons of Spanish Origin
in the United States:
March 1973“
“ Persons of Spanish Origin
in the United States:
March 1972 and 1971“
“ Selected Characteristics of
Persons and Families of
Mexican, Puerto Rican, and
Other Spanish Origin:
March 1972“
“ Selected Characteristics of
Persons and Families of
Mexican, Puerto Rican, and
Other Spanish Origin:
March 1971“
“ Persons of Spanish Origin
in the United States:
November 1969“

advance report

Series P-20, No. 253, ‘‘Voting and Registra­
tion in the Election of November 1972” . This pub­

supercedes
No. 259

lication includes two tables containing voter registra­
tion and participation data for persons of Spanish
origin. Statistics are presented by age and sex for the
total Spanish origin voting age population, and by
sex only for persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and
other Spanish origin.

advance report

supercedes
No. 238
and supplements
No. 224
advance report

Series P-20, No. 252, ‘‘College Plans of High
School Seniors: October 1972” . This report pres­

ents limited data on the post-high school educational
plans of high school seniors of Spanish origin
enrolled in October 1972. Data include intention of
college attendence; and if so, the type of college
(2-year, or 4-year, or both). For those not planning
college attendance, the intention of attending any
other type of school is included.

supercedes
No. 195
See individual
listing for
P-20 No. 213.
“ Spanish-American Population: advance report
November 1969“
first CPR
with Spanish
origin data

Series P-20, No. 213, ‘‘Persons of Spanish
Origin in the United States: November 1969” . This

publication presents data from the November 1969
Current Population Survey, the first CPS containing
questions regarding ethnic origin or descent and lan­
guage usually spoken in the home. (Preliminary data
superceded by this report were published in P-20,
No. 195). Its 27 tables cover such characteristics as
origin of head by origin of wife, nativity, mother
tongue, language usually spoken in the home, educa­
tional attainment, literacy in English and/or Spanish
or both, employment status, occupation, and family
income.
M any of the tables include data by specific
Spanish origin—M exican, Puerto Rican, Cuban,
Central or South American, and other Spanish.
Some of the tables include separate information for
persons of Spanish origin in the Southwest, and sev­
eral tables have cross-tabulations by age, sex, and
other characteristics.
Additional data for many of the subjects covered
in this report as well as on place of birth for persons
of Spanish origin (and six other ethnic groups) are
provided in Current Population Reports, Series P-20,

Series P-20, No. 260, ‘‘Social and Economic
Characteristics of Students: O ctober 1972” . This
is the first Current Population Report containing

detailed information on the school enrollment of per­
sons of Spanish origin. These statistics are presented
in one text table and 12 detailed tables. Most tables
have enrollment status and level of school in which
enrolled, cross-tabulated by one or more of the fol­
lowing characteristics: Age, sex, type of residence,
family and marital status, years of school completed,
education and income of family head, number of
family members in college and whether attending
college on a full-time basis, and control of school.
There are also data on persons 3 to 6 years of age
enrolled in special schools, enrollment status of per­



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No. 221, “ Characteristics of the Population by
Ethnic Origin, November 1969,” issued in late April
of 1971. More detail on educational attainment of the
individual Spanish ethnic groups can be found in
CPR, Series P-20, No. 220, “ Ethnic Origin and
Educational Attainment, November 1969.” Another
report based on the 1969 survey, containing fertility
data on Spanish Americans, is discussed elsewhere
in this directory.

The publications of EEOC, CSC, and HEW gen­
erally contain Spanish ancestry data labeled as
Spanish surname. In these reports Spanish surname
generally refers to a Spanish ancestry population
wider than that within the Census Bureau’s “ sur­
name” definition.
The determination of the Spanish population is
usually included in the technical notes of these
reports. These notes contain facsimiles of survey
q u e stio n a ire s w ith in stru c tio n s for th eir
com pletion-the Spanish identification criteria are
among these instructions.

S e rie s P -2 3 , N o . 50, “ F e m a le F a m ily H e a d s .’f

This study on female family headship contains one
table with limited data on persons of Spanish origin.
For each year of the 1970-73 period, the following
data cells are presented: Number of families with a
head of Spanish origin, number with female heads,
and percent of Spanish origin families with female
heads.

Data from the Civil Service Commission
Minority Group Employment in the Federal
Government (November 30, 1972)

S e rie s P -6 0 , N o . 91, “ C h a ra c te ris tic s o f th e
L o w -In c o m e P o p u la tio n : 1 9 7 2 “ . This report in­

cludes the first Spanish ancestry data made available
from the March 1973 CPS. In this survey the number
of Spanish origin households sampled was doubled
compared to earlier years in order to increase the
reliability of Spanish origin data.
Spanish origin data include low-income status in
1972 according to type of Spanish origin and sex for
families and unrelated individuals Nationwide, and
more limited data for five Southwestern States. Simi­
lar data have been published for 1971 and 1970 in
P-60, Nos. 86 and 81, respectively. The expanded
sample for the March 1973, survey has resulted in the
publication of Spanish origin low-income data ac­
cording to the following additional characteristics:
age, type of family, size of family, number of chil­
dren, educational attainment, number of earners,
employment status, work experience, and occupa­
tion.
A limited amount of data on the 1973 low-income
status of persons of Spanish origin are provided in
the final table of S eries P-60, N o. 94,
“ Characteristics of the Low-Income Population:
1973, ” (an advance report). Data are from the March
1974, Current Population Survey.

Selected Other Data Sources

Data from the Bureau of the Census

The following data source listings are of selected
publications issued by the Equal Employment Op­
portunity Commission, the Civil Service Commis­
sion, and the Department of Health, Education, and
Welfare. In addition, several miscellaneous items
from the Bureau of the Census are included.



This publication presents statistics on the number
and incidence of minority group Federal employees
according to pay plan and grade or salary level. It is
issued by the Bureau of M anpower Information
Systems.
The number and proportion of persons of Spanish
ancestry are provided at the national level for 120
separate Federal agencies according to pay plan and
detailed grade or salary level; and government-wide
totals are provided for each State, 75 individual
SMSA’s and 11 civil service regions according to pay
plan and grade or salary level grouping. An
introductory text includes some tables with data for
the 1969-72 period. Although this report is issued
b iannually w ith sta tis tic s for each M ay and
November, only the reports for November include
data for States and SMSA’s.
A lthough tab les headings used the Spanish
surname indicator, personnel taking the survey were
instructed to include persons of Mexican, Puerto
Rican or other Spanish origin, including Spanish
speaking persons whose surnames are no longer
Spanish due to marriage or some other reason in the
Spanish surname classification. In addition, the
Spanish surname designation was applied to anyone
who considered him self or herself to b e - o r is
regarded in the work environment or the community
to be of Spanish ancestry.

Minority-Owned Business: 1969
This publication, Report No. MB-1, presents the
first com prehensive statistics on business firms
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owned by persons of Spanish origin. Coverage
includes industry, location, number of employees,
gross receipts, and legal form of organization,
acco rd in g to specific type o f S panish
origin-M exican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other
Central or South America origin. Data are provided
for the United States, individual States and the
District of Columbia, and SMSA’s with 500 or more
minority-owned firms. Statistical detail is greatest at
the national level.

Spanish ancestry data, by sex, are provided as
follows: (1) Nationwide totals covering all employers
in the survey; (2) statewide totals for 49 States and
the District of Columbia (Hawaiian employers are
not required to report to the EEOC); and (3) industry
tables, by State, for eight States in which Spanish
Americans constitute a sizeable portion of the popu­
lation. These tables are published for those States in
which there are at least 10 reporting establishments
within the industry, or at least five establishments
and at least 2,000 total employees.

Statistical Abstract of the United States:
1973

Data from the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare

The 1973 edition of the annual Statistical Abstract
contains some data on persons of Spanish ancestry.
The particular Spanish identifier (heritage, origin,
bithplace, surname) varies among tables. Subjects
covered include population counts, immigration ac­
cording to country of birth and country of last resi­
dence, Cuban refugees, naturalization, school en­
rollm ent, educational attain m en t, em ploym ent
status, family-income, low-income status, Federal
Government employment, and business ownership.
Most of these data can be found in other sources
listed elsewhere in this directory.

Findings of the 1971 AFDC Study Parts I and
III
This report (and others listed below) presents
tabulations of the characteristics of beneficiares
under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children
program, administered by the States and the Social
and Rehabilitation Service of HEW. Data are based
on caseload sample statistics submitted by State wel­
fare agencies to the National Center for Social Statis­
tics.
These findings include limited statistics on per­
sons of Latin American birth or ancestry. Table 3 of
part I presents the representation of Spanish ances­
try families among all AFDC families for the United
States, geographic divisions, 20 individual States,
and Puerto Rico. Part III provides four tables with
data at the National level. Included are statistics on
the family status of fathers and mothers of AFDC
children, the length of time families have been re­
ceiving AFDC benefits, and type of residence.
Statistics similar to those in part I of the 1971
AFDC report are available under the Old Age Assis­
tance, Aid to the Blind, and Aid to the Permanently
and Totally Disabled programs in Findings o f the
1970 OAA Study , Findings o f the 1970 AB Study, and
Findings o f the 1970 APTD Study, respectively.

Data from the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
Equal Employment Opportunity Report: 1970
Job Patterns for Minorities and Women in
Private Industry
This report in two volumes provides employment
data on minorities by industry and broad occupa­
tional categories for the United States, and standard
m etropolitan statistical areas. The statistics are
based on reports on about 31 million workers submit­
ted to the Commission in early 1970 by 45,000 em­
ployers representing nearly 140,000 reporting estab­
lishments. This is the fifth and latest available report
containing such information required by Title VII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Executive Order
11246.
Employment data for persons of Spanish ancestry
refer to Spanish sumamed Americans. This concept,
as used by EEOC, includes not only persons with
such surnames, but anyone else determined by em­
ployers to be of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban or
other Spanish origin, or to use the Spanish language.




Racial and Ethnic Enrollment Data from In­
stitutions of Higher Education: Fall 1970
This publication prepared by the Office for Civil
Rights includes counts of Spanish surnamed persons
enrolled as full-time students in institutions of higher
education in 1970. Data are furnished according to
level (undergraduate, graduate) for the N ation,

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Social Security Administration, Research
and Statistics Notes

States, and individual institutions. The Spanish sur­
name designation used in this report is not necessar­
ily restricted to “ surnam e” as used in Bureau of the
Census publications. See page 27 under “ Student
Enrollment D ata,” for data collection and minority
group designation information.

Note No. 28-1972, “ Spanish-Surnamed So­
cial Security Beneficiaries in the Southwest” .
This research note provides information on Spanish
surnamed persons in five southwestern States re­
ceiving benefits under the social security program in
1971. Data on this population include counts by
State, by type of beneficiary, and family classifica­
tion; and average monthly benefits by type of ben­
eficiary. Some of these statistics are presented by
age, sex, marital status and disability status. All ta­
bles contain comparable data for the total population
of these five States and some tables include data for
all whites and blacks. Surname, as used in this re­
port, is based on matching social security records
with a list of Spanish family names.

Digest of Educational Statistics, 1973
Five tables of this 12th annual publication of the
Office of Education contain data on persons of
Spanish ancestry; the particular Spanish identifier
varies among tables. Items covered include enroll­
ment in adult education programs; median number of
years of school completed, by State; representation
among first-time college students; enrollment in pub­
lic schools by level of isolation (segregation); and
1965 achievement test scores.




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Section III. Races Other Than Black
Introduction

Filipino or Filipino-A m erican, and K orean or
Korean-American, respectively.
There were numerous other races reported on the
1970 census questionnaires; but of these, data were
coded and tabulated only for Eskimos and Aleuts in
Alaska and for Hawaiians. Among the remaining
races are: Asian, Burmese, Cambodian, Ceylonese,
Eurasian, Indonesian, Javanese, Laotian, Lapp,
M alayan, M elanesian, M icronesian, Polynesian,
Samoan, Siamese, Thai, Tibetan and Vietnamese.
Data for American Indians and specified other
races are extremely limited. Two Subject Reports
from the Census o f Population: 1970, (PC(2)-1F,
“ American Indians,” and PC(2)-1G, “ Japanese,
Chinese, and Filipinos in the United States” ), con­
tain the bulk of the available social and economic
data. The latter publication also contains some data
on Koreans and Hawaiians. One of the Census o f
Housing: 1970, Subject Reports, HC(7)-9, “ Housing
of Selected Racial G roups,” is the only housing re­
port with data for minority races other than Negro.
These three publications also contain statistics for
regions and selected States, SMSA’s, and, for the
PC(2)-G report, and selected cities. The report on
American Indians also has tribal and reservation
data.
Small amounts of information for these races are
scattered among other Census of Population: 1970,
PC(2) Subject Reports (Nos. 1C, ID, 3A, 4A, 4C,
4D, 4E, 5A, 5B, 7A, 7B, 9A, 9B, and 10A) and total
about 80 pages of tabulations. Also a few tables of the
PC(1)-B and -D State reports contain population
counts by age and sex for these races.

Statistical information from nationwide surveys
for races other than white or Negro are available
from a few complete count enumerations such as
those contained in reports from the Office for Civil
Rights in HEW, the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission, and the Civil Service Commission; and
from the decennial census, which provides data
based on relatively large sample sizes 5, 15, and 20
percent and complete enumerations. Limited data
are also available from the 1969 Census of Agricul­
ture. Survey limitations related Survey limitations
related to sample size and other sampling charac­
teristics preclude availability of data on races other
than black from the Current Population Survey.
The decennial census is the only major data source
for most of the individual “ other” races; the other
so u rces include only tw o “ o th e r ” race
categories-A m erican Indians and Orientals. The
1970 census provides information for American In­
dians, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos at the na­
tional, regional, State, area, and place levels, and for
Koreans and Hawaiians at the national level and for
selected States and areas. Counts of Eskimos and
Aleuts in Alaska are also provided.1
The decennial census is also the only one of the
four major sources which relies on self-identification
of race. In the 1970 census, the category American
Indian includes persons who indicated their race as
American Indian or who did not indicate specific
race but reported the name of an Indian tribe or such
race items as French-A m erican Indian, IndianA m erican, M exican-A m erican Indian, Red, or
Spanish American Indian. Japanese includes per­
sons reporting Japanese, Japanese-American, Nip­
ponese, or Oriental. Chinese included those report­
ing Chinese, Chinese-A m erican, or Mongolian.
Filipino and Korean include persons who indicated

Reports from the Census of Population
and Housing: 1970
Census of Population: 1970, reports
Volume I (Series PC(1)), Characteristics of
the Population

lrThe Bureau of the Census is in the process of preparing a report
with data on the social and economic characteristics of Eskimos
and Aleuts in Alaska. This report will be issued as part of the
PC(S1), Supplementary Reports series.




Series PC(1)-B, “ General Population Charac52

teristics“ . The “ General Population Characteris­
tics” series of reports contain counts of the Ameri­
can Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino popula­
tions, by sex, for the United States, regions, divi­
sions, S tates, standard m etropolitan statistical
areas, urbanized areas, counties, and places of 2,500
inhabitants or more. Data for the Nation, regions,
divisions, and States also include population counts
by type of residence and size of place. Counts of
these groups are also presented for places of 1,000 to
2,500 inhabitants, but not by sex.

ropolitan statistical areas having 2,500 Indians or
more, the 24 reservations having 2,300 or more, and
the 32 tribes having 3,800 Indians or more. Few of
the data herein are included in any other census
volume. Moreover, this publication contains more
social and economic data on American Indians than
all other Census o f Population: 1970, reports com­
bined.
Statistics presented in the first 15 tables are identi­
cal in subject matter to those in the 1970 census
Subject Reports on Negroes, other minority races,
and Spanish Americans. In addition there are tables
showing population counts by age and sex for 90
tribal classifications, and 115 reservations identified
by the Bureau of the Census. Another table presents
data on 20 specified mother tongues according to
age, sex, and residence on reservations.
Among the social characteristics covered are
household relationship, marital status, fertility, pre­
sence and number of children, family size, place of
birth and residence in 1965, school enrollment, and
the educational attainment of persons and family
heads. Economic characteristics include labor force
status, and employment status of persons and wives
of family heads; occupation of employed persons
and family heads; industry of employed persons;
weeks worked by persons and family heads; hours
worked by family heads; num ber of earners in
families; income of persons and families; type of
income of families; and the incidence of poverty for
persons and families. Ten housing characteristics are
also presented: tenure, number of rooms, number of
persons, persons per room, number of units in struc­
ture, year structure built, selected equipment, au­
tomobile availability value of owner occupied units,
and amount of rent paid.

S e rie s P C (1 )-D , “ D e ta ile d C h a r a c te r is tic s ” .

The PC(1)-D reports contain counts of the American
Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Korean
populations by sex, age and nativity at the State,
regional and national levels. The State report for
Alaska (PC(1)-D3) contains similar data for Eskimos
and Aleuts (omitting Koreans), while the Hawaii
(PC(1)-D13) and the United States Summary reports
include counts of Hawaiians.
In addition, the PC(1)-D reports include some fer­
tility data for Japanese and Chinese women 35 to 44
years old; and age at first marriage data for American
Indians, Japanese, and Chinese 30 to 49 years old.
Volume II (Series PC(2)), Subject Reports
R e p o r t s P C ( 2 ) 1 C , “ P e r s o n s o f S p a n is h
O r ig in ,” a n d P C (2 )-1 D , “ P e rs o n s o f S p a n is h S u r­
n a m e ” . Table 2 of “ Persons of Spanish Origin” has

counts of American Indians of Spanish origin or des­
cent for the United States, regions, geographic divi­
sions, and States. Table 5 provides counts of Ameri­
can Indians and Filipinos at the National level ac­
cording to sex, nativity status, and type of Spanish
origin (total, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban).
“ Persons of Spanish Surname” presents counts of
American Indians and Filipinos of Spanish surname,
by sex, for Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mex­
ico, and Texas according to type of residence, and
for each of 28 SMSA’s and 21 places (in these five
States) having 25,000 inhabitants or more with a
Spanish surname.

R e p o rt P C (2 )-1 G , “J a p a n e s e , C h in e s e , a n d
F ilip in o s in th e U n ite d S ta te s ” . This report consti­

tutes the primary source of information on Japanese,
Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, and Hawaiians, pres­
enting social, economic, and housing data on the first
three groups and limited social and economic data
for the last two groups. Coverage is for the Nation
and regions, and for States and SMSA’s with sub­
stantial numbers of these minority groups. Data are
in a format which facilitiates comparison with data
presented on blacks, Indians, and Spanish Ameri­
cans in Subject Reports PC(2)-1B through IF, and
provides a limited amount of comparability to the
ethnic group data in PC(2)-1A, “ National Origin and
Language.”
The publication contains 49 tables, 15 each for
Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino-Americans and two

R e p o rt PC(2yiF, “A m e ric a n In d ia n s ” . This re­
port is the principal source of data on the social, and
economic characteristics of American Indians. The
data are presented by type of residence and often by
sex for the United States, regions, and the 18 States
with 10,000 or more Indians. More detailed data by
sex and age are included for the eight States with
having an Indian population of 25,000 or more.
Statistics are also furnished for the 30 standard met­




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for table 12.

each for Koreans and Hawaiians. Among the demo­
graphic and social characteristics covered in this
report are age and sex, type of residence, mother
tongue, household and family relationship, marital
status, family size, fertility, residence in 1965, pres­
ence and number of children, school enrollment, and
educational attainm ent. Econom ic data include
in fo rm atio n on lab o r fo rce p a rtic ip a tio n ,
employment status, occupation of employed persons
and family heads, industry, weeks worked and hours
worked, number of earners in families, income of
persons and fam ilies, type of incom e and the
incidence of poverty for persons and families.
Housing data are also included, covering such
characteristics as tenure, number of rooms, number
of persons, persons per room, number of units in
structure, year structure built, selected equipment,
automobile availability, value, and rent.

R e p o rt P C (2 y 4 D , “A g e a t F irs t M a r r ia g e ” .

This Subject Report has two tables containing some
data on A m erican Indians, Japanese, Chinese,
Filipinos, Hawaiians, and Koreans. Table 5 tabu­
lates the age of first marriage of each of these groups
by age at the time of the 1970 census, and sex, for the
United States and urbanized areas. Table 6 presents
cumulative percentages of persons first married
prior to reaching eight different ages, by age in 1970,
and sex, for the United States and urbanized areas.
R e p o r t P C (2 )-4 E , “ P e rs o n s in In s titu tio n s
a n d O th e r G ro u p Q u a rte rs ” . One brief table (No.

15) in this report contains national counts of Ameri­
can Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino inmates
of institutions according to sex and four broad age
groups.

R e p o r t P C (2 )-3 A , “ W o m e n b y N u m b e r o f
C h ild re n E v e r B o r n ” . Three tables in this report

R e p o rt P C (2 )-5 A , " S c h o o l E n r o llm e n t” . Data
for American Indians, Japanese Americans, and
Chinese Americans are provided in two tables of this
report. Table 1 has data on the enrollment status of
persons 3 to 49 years old according to year of school
in which enrolled. Table 14 has educational attain­
ment data for persons 16 to 24 years old not enrolled
in school. Both tables present data for each of these
three racial groups according to age, sex, and type of
residence.

provide fertility data on minority races other than
Negro. N um ber of children ever born is crosstabulated by age and type of residence for American
Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Koreans, and
Hawaiians in table 8. The following table provides
separate data for 30 individual American Indian
tribes. Table 10 presents number of children ever
born, by age of wife, according to the race and nativ­
ity of husband by that of the w ife-coverage includes
American Indians, Japanese, and Chinese.

R e p o rt P C (2 )-5 B , “ E d u c a tio n a l A tta in m e n t.”
R e p o r t P C (2 )-4 A ,

“ Educational Attainm ent” contains one table pres­
enting data on Indians 14 years of age or older who
are nativ e born of n ative p a re n tag e . This
encom passes virtually all American Indians (93
p ercent). The data consist of years of school
completed for 12 age groups by sex. Coverage is for
the United States, according to type of residence.

“ F a m ily C o m p o s it io n ” .

“ Family Composition’’ includes one table with fam­
ily data on American Indians, Japanese, Chinese,
and Filipinos. It contains counts of families accord­
ing to presence of children cross-tabulated by pres­
ence in the family of siblings, parents, and grandchil­
dren of the family head. The data for American In­
dians are additionally cross-tabulated according to
the presence of subfamilies.

R e p o rt P C ( 2 y iA , " O c c u p a tio n a l C h a ra c te ris ­
tic s ” . This Subject Report contains two tables pro­

Report PC(2)-4C, “ M a rita l Status” . This report
contains one table (table 12) with national and re­
gional data on the race and type of Spanish origin of
wives cross-tabulated by the race and Spanish origin
of husbands, according to decade when first married.
Data are provided for American Indians, Japanese,
Chinese, and Filipinos, according to type of resi­
dence.
Table
13 p ro v id es
sim ilar
d ata
for
H a w aii-o m ittin g Spanish origin, but including
Hawaiians and Koreans in addition to the races cited




viding d etailed o c c u p atio n (441 o c c u p atio n a l
categories), by sex, for American Indians, Japanese,
Chinese, and Filipinos. One table (No. 2) provides an
occupational distribution of the experienced labor
force, while table 39 has a comparable distribution
for persons employed at the time of the census.
R e p o r t P C ( 2 ) - 7 B f ” In d u s tr ia l C h a r a c te r is ­

This report contains occasional tables present­
ing counts of American Indians, Japanese, Chinese,
and Filipinos according to industry and sex. Tables 2

tic s ” .

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for Federal Government civilian employees, depen­
dents of members of the Armed Forces dependents
of Federal civilian employees, crews of merchant
vessels, and other citizens. Most of these counts are
provided according to country or major area of resi­
dence and for employed persons.

and 33 provide such data on the experienced labor
force and em ployed perso n s for 227 separate
in d u strie s. T able 42 in clu d es co u n ts for the
experienced civilian labor force of these four races
according to class of w orker and agricultural
industry status.
R e p o rt P C (2 )-9 A , “ L o w -In c o m e P o p u la tio n ’’.

Census of Housing: 1970, reports

This publication presents data primarily on the lowincome white, black, and Spanish origin popula­
tions; in addition, table 3 contains information on
American Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos,
Hawaiians, and Koreans. Included are counts of all
persons and families, and counts of those below the
poverty level, as well as the percentage of those
below the poverty line. Data are for persons in
families, according to family relationship and sex of
family head, and unrelated individuals. Selected
other items are included in this table for the United
States and each of the four regions.

Volume VII (Series HC(7)), S u b je c t R e p o rts
,

R e p o rt H C (7 )-9 “ H o u s in g o f S e le c te d R a c ia l
G ro u p s ’’. This report is the only report from the

Housing Census with data on American Indians,
Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, and Koreans (limited
housing data for these groups can be found in the
PC(2)-1F and 1G Census o f Population: 1970, Sub­
je ct Reports. It contains 11 sets of six tables covering
the United States, inside SMSA’s, in central cities,
outside central cities, outside SMSA’s each of the
four regions, and individual States and SMSA’s with
substantial population from these minority groups.
These six tables presents occupancy and plumbing
characteristics (population, tenure, year moved in,
source of water, sewage disposal, piped water, flush
toilet, bathtub, plumbing, and type of residence);
utilization characteristics (rooms, persons, persons
per room, and number of bedrooms), and financial
characteristics (value, and rent). They present also
structural characteristics (units in structure, year
built, basement, elevator, kitchen, and private ac­
cess); fuels and appliances (fuels for house heating,
water heating, and cooking; presence of washer,
dryer, dishwasher, freezer, television, and battery
radio; air conditioning; automobile availability; and
type of heating equipment); and household charac­
teristics (number of persons, age and sex of house­
hold head, income, and ratio of value and rent to
income).

R e p o r t P C ( 2 ) - 9 B , “ L o w - In c o m e A re a s in
L a rg e C itie s ’’. This report includes limited data for

American Indians, Japanese, and Chinese living in
the 50 largest cities (individually and combined) and
the four largest boroughs in New York City. Data for
these races consist of counts of the population, and
incidence of low-income for the total city and six
aggregates of Census tracts within the city according
to the percent of persons below the poverty level in
1969.
In addition, data for Honolulu, Hawaii, include
numerous social, economic, and housing charac­
teristics of the Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and
H aw aiian populations for the total city, areas
consisting of census tracts with a poverty rate of 20
percent or more, and the remainder of the city.
The number of persons and the incidence of in­
come below the low-income level in individual lowincome neighborhoods (divisions of low-income
areas) have been published for American Indians,
Japanese, Chinese, and Filipinos in 39 reports of the
PC(S1) Supplementary Reports series. These re­
ports (PC(Sl)-65 through -103) present neighbor­
hood statistics for all the cities covered in PC(2)-9B,
except Honolulu, which was not divided into sepa­
rate low-income neighborhoods.

Joint population-housing reports
Series PHC(3), Employment Profiles of
Selected Low-Income Areas
Two reports in this series provide data on Ameri­
can Indians; both cover areas in New Mexico. Re­
port 75, “ Selected Rural Countries in New Mexico’’,
presents characteristics for persons other than white
or Negro (Indians comprised nearly 100 percent of
this category). Report 76, “ Zuni Reservation, New
M exico,” provides data for the total population,

R e p o r t P C (2 )-1 0 A , “ A m e r ic a n s liv in g A b ­

This report presents population counts, by
age and sex, of American Indian, and Japanese,
Chinese, and Filipino-American civilians living out­
side the United States. Separate data are provided

r o a d ’ ’.




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Data from the Bureau of the Census

about 90 percent of which was American Indian; thus
these statistics generally reflect the social and
economic conditions of the Zuni Reservation Indians
at the survey date.
Among the characteristics covered in the table
are: Age; marital and family status; number of per­
sons, children, and earners in families; educational
attainment and job training; labor force and em­
ployment status and extent of unemployment; occu­
pation and industry; work history; hourly, weekly,
and annual earnings; sources and distribution of in­
come, and extent of poverty, and place of work.
They cover also method and cost of transporation to
work; desire for work of those not in the labor force
and reasons for not seeking a job; reasons for leaving
last job; job seeking methods; lowest acceptable pay;
expenses for mortgages, rent, and utilities; install­
ment debts; and residential mobility.

Census of Agriculture: 1969, reports
One report from the Census of Agriculture has
data on the other than black minority races. “ Farm
Management, Farm O perators” (Chapter 3 of the
Volume II, General Report ), contains a few tables
with data on American Indians and other races.
Table 37 of part I provides counts of farms with
American Indian operators and acreage for the N a­
tion, regions, and States according to tenure. Table
32 of part III provides similar data according to
economic class of farm. A text table for part III (No.
15) includes national data on tenure, type of organi­
zation, and economic class for American Indian op­
erated farms.
Limited data for specified other races (Hawaiian,
Ja p an e se , C hinese, F ilipino, and K orean) are
available only for the State of Hawaii, and are in a
text table on page 173. This table provides counts of
farm operators, by race, by county and by economic
class of farm.

Selected Other Data Sources
Other sources of data on these minority races in­
cluded college enrollment figures on East Asians and
American Indians (from HEW); data for these same
two groups on private industry employment (from
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
and Federal Governm ent employment (from the
Civil Service Commission); and limited statistics on
minority farm operators (from the 1969 agriculture
census).

Data from the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
Equal Employment Opportunity Report:
1970 Job Pattersn for Minorities and
Women in Private Industry
The report (in two volumes) provides employment
data of minorities by industry, and broad occupa­
tional categories for the United States, States and
standard metropolitan statistical areas. These statis­
tics are from reports on about 31 million workers
submitted by 45,000 employers in early 1970 to the
Commission. This is the fifth annual report contain­
ing such information, required by Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 or under Executive Order 11246.
E m ploym ent data for A m erican Indians and
“ Orientals” are provided as follows: (1) Nationwide
totals of American Indian and “ Oriental” workers
covering all employers in the survey; (2) statewide
totals for 49 States and the District of Columbia
(Hawaiian firms are not required to report to the
EEOC); (3) industry tables, by State, for each of 60
industry groups. These tables are published for those
States in which there are at least 10 reporting estab­
lishments within the industry, or at least five estab­
lishments and at least 2,000 employees; (4) selected
industry tables for industries meeting the same
10/5-2,000 requirement above, for the eight SMSA’s

Data from the Civil Service Commission
Minority Group Employment in the Federal
Government, November 1972
This report, issued two times a year by the Bureau
of Manpower Information Systems, presents statis­
tics on the number and incidence of minority group
Federal employees according to pay plan and grade
or salary level as of May 31, and November 30.
The November reports contain the number and
proportion of American Indians and “ Orientals” at
the national level for 120 separate Federal agencies
according to pay plan and detailed grade and salary
level; and government-wide totals for each State, 75
SMSA’s and 11 civil service regions according to pay
plan and grade or salary level grouping. The May
reports are limited to national level data.
The concept of race in these reports is not based on
self-identification by employees but on observation
by supervisory personnel.




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enrolled as full-time students in institutions of higher
education in 1970. Data are furnished for the Nation,
States, and individual institutions according to
enrollment level (undergraduate, graduate).

containing 5,000 Indians or more and nine SMSA’s
containing 10,000 Oriental Americans or more. Data
for “ O rie n ta ls” are not available in sep arate
categories for Japanese, Chinese, or other East
Asian races.

Digest of Educational Statistics, 1973
Data from the Department of Health, Education,
and Welfare

Four tables of this Office of Education report
contain lim ited data on A m erican Indians and
“ Orientals.” These tables provide information on
the following subject areas: enrollm ent in adult
e d u c atio n p ro g ram s, re p re s e n ta tio n am ong
first-time college students, extent of racial isolation
in public schools, and 1965 achievement test scores.

Racial and Ethnic Enrollment Data from In­
stitutions of Higher Education: Fall 1970
This report of the Office for Civil Rights presents
counts of A m erican Indians and “ O rie n ta ls”




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Section IV.

Ethnic Groups Other Than Spanish Ancestry

Introduction

of the Population by Ethnic Origin: March 1972 and
1971.’’
Some of the following source listings do not pre­
sent data for individual ethnic groups; however, they
are cited because they furnish data on the total
foreign born, on the native born of foreign or mixed
parentage, or on both.

There are three indicators used in ascertaining the
ethnicity of persons other than those of Spanish
ancestry-self-identification of origin or descent,
country of birth or of parent’s birth, and mother
tongue.
Data on these ethnic groups are available from two
sources—selected by 1970 census publications and
occasional Current Population Reports.
The 1970 census statistics are even less prevalent
than those for minority races other than blacks.
Characteristic data for the other than Spanish ances­
try ethnic groups are restricted entirely to coverage
of persons reporting his birth or that of his parents in
selected foreign countries; no information is availa­
ble comparable to the Spanish ancestry identifier of
country of origin or descent. Moreover, only popula­
tion counts were tabulated for persons reporting a
mother tongue other than Spanish. The result is that
there are no 1970 census data for third and succes­
sive generation Americans who consider themselves
to be members of any of the non-Spanish ancestry
ethnic groups. On the other hand, reports from Cur­
rent Population Surveys present data based on re­
sponses to self-identification of ethnic origin or des­
cent, without regard, necessarily, to the Nation of
one’s birth or that of his parents.
The Census o f Population: 1970, Subject Report
PC(2)1A, “ National Origin and Language,’’ con­
tains virtually all the social and economic data on the
other than Spanish ancestry ethnic groups to be
found in the decennial census. A very limited amount
of such data is to be found also in some of the other
Subject Reports (3A, 4A, 4C, 4D, 5A, 5B, 9A, and
9B). Data in the volume I reports, Series PC(1)-C and
PC(1)-D, and the Census Tracts reports (Series
PHC(l)) are limited to population counts. No hous­
ing data were published.
A few of the Current Population Reports contain
data for persons reporting selected countries or areas
of origin or descent. The most recent such report
providing a range of social and economic charac­
teristic data is Series P-20, No. 249, “ Characteristics




Reports from the Census of Population
and Housing: 1970
Census of Population: 1970, reports
Volume I (Series PC(1)), Characteristics of
the Population
S erie s PC(1)-C , “ G e n e ra l S o c ia l a nd
Econom ic Characteristics” . This series of reports

has counts of the foreign bom , and native born per­
sons of foreign or mixed parentage, by race and
Spanish heritage, according to country of birth or
parentage (27 countries or areas). In addition are
counts of the native and the foreign born populations
according to mother tongue. These statistics are
provided for the Nation, and States by type of resi­
dence, and size of place; and for individual met­
ropolitan areas, urbanized areas, and places of
50,000 inhabitants or more. Some of these data are
available for regions and geographic divisions in the
United States summary report of this series.
Series PC(1)-D, “ Detailed C haracteristics” .

The “ Detailed C haracteristics’’ reports contain
counts of the foreign born by such characteristics as
sex, age, mother tongue, citizenship status, year of
immigration, and country of birth (81 countries or
areas). For persons native born of foreign or mixed
parentage few er c h a ra c te ristic s are p resen ted
—race, m other tongue, and country of parent’s
birth.
These data are presented for the Nation, its re­
gions, States and major cities. Some of these data
also are shown for major SMSA’s.
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Russians, and Italians.
Another table includes the presence of children
cross-tabulated according to the presence in the fam­
ily of brothers or sisters, parents, and grandchildren
to family heads of Irish, German, Polish, Russian,
Italian, or Mexican foreign stock.

Volume II (Series PC(2)), Subject Reports
Report P C (2yiA , “ National O rigin and Lan­
guage” . This report is the most comprehensive

source of social and economic data for the study of
ethnic groups. Statistics are presented on persons
whose birth or at least one parents’ birth was in one
of 24 selected countries or areas. Coverage includes
the first and second generation American population
from 17 individual European nations, China, Japan,
Canada, Mexico, Cuba, other West Indies, and other
Central and South America. Information is pre­
sented separately for these two generations of
foreign stock for the United States and 22 standard
metropolitan statistical areas.
Characteristics are tabulated for broad age groups
(and often by sex) at the national level, and usually
by sex alone at the SMSA level. Topics covered
include relation to head of household, marital status,
fertility, residence in 1965, years of school com­
pleted, mother tongue, labor force participation and
employment status, occupation, class of worker, in­
come of families and unrelated individuals, and pov­
erty status. Similar data are included for the white,
black, and Spanish language populations. Many of
these statistics are comparable to data in other
Subject Reports on blacks, Indians, Japanese,
Chinese, Filipinos, and persons of Spanish ancestry.
Additional tables present social and economic
characteristics of the foreign-born population from
each country (or area) according to year of immigra­
tion, while the final table presents nativity status
data on family members and unrelated individuals
according to country of birth or parentage. Counts of
persons according to mother tongue and nativity
status are provided in table 19 of this report.

Report PC(2)-4C, “ M arital Status” . “ Marital
Status’’ contains one table which presents a detailed
cross-tabuation of the country of birth or parentage
of husbands by the country of birth or parentage of
wives, according to age. The data are presented for
the United States, central cities of urbanized areas,
balance of urbanized areas, other urban places, rural
non-farm, and rural farm, in addition to total and
central cities for each of the four regions.
Countries for which birth or parentage statistics
are presented in this table are: United Kingdom,
Ireland, Germany, Poland, U .S .S .R ., Italy, and
Canada. Cross-tabulations are also presented for the
total population, blacks, Puerto Ricans, and persons
of Spanish heritage.
Report PC(2)-4D, “ Age at First Marriage” .

This publication has one table (table 7) which pres­
ents distributions, by sex, of the age at first marriage
for the native and foreign born white population.
Included are distributions for those born in eight
foreign countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, Ger­
many, Poland, U .S.S.R ., Italy, Canada, and Mex­
ico) for seven ages at first marriage categories. Also
provided is the median age of first marriage for each
distribution. These statistics are presented for five
age breaks (at the time of the 1970 census) for the
foreign born in the United States and those living in
urbanized areas.

R eport PC(2)-3A) “ Women by N um ber of
Children Ever B orn ” . Table 12 of this report pre­

R e p o rt PC(2)-5A, “ S c h o o l E n ro llm e n t” .

sents fertility statistics for women who were born or
had at least one parent born in 12 separate foreign
countries. Data are provided according to age and
foreign birth or parentage, for the United States and
urbanized areas.
Report PC(2)-4A, “ Fam ily C om position” . This
report contains a table presenting characteristics of
husband-wife families in which the family head was
of foreign birth or parentage. Characteristics include
age of wife, family size, presence and number of
children, education, income, and type of residence.
These tabulations are repeated for families in which
the head and wife are of the same foreign stock.
Separate tabulations are provided for families
headed by first or second generation Irish, Germans,




“ School Enrollment” has three tables containing
enrollment data by ethnicity. Table 13 has enroll­
ment status (enrolled below college, in college, not
enrolled), by sex, five age groupings, and citizenship
status for the foreign born from 21 separate Euro­
pean countries, Asia, Canada, Mexico, and other
Latin America. Table 1 has data on enrollment status
by sex, age, and year of school in which enrolled, for
all native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, and
foreign born whites, by type of residence. Table 14
has educational attainment data for persons 16 to 24
years old, not enrolled in school, for the same
characteristics as table 1.
Report PC(2)-5Bf “ Educational A ttainm ent” .

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“ Educational Attainment” has one table containing
data on years of school completed for three broad
categories of native bom persons of foreign or mixed
parentage and the foreign born. For the United
States, urban, and rural residence, data are provided
by age and sex for the first and second generation
population from Europe; Mexico, Central or South
America; and other (largely Asians).

Reports from the Current Population
Survey
Data published by the Bureau of the Census
Current Population Reports
Series P-20, No. 253, “ Voting and Registra­
tion in the Election of November 1972’’. Table 2 of

Report PC(2)-9A, “ Low -Incom e P opulation’’.

this report provides counts of the voting age popula­
tion, the percent registered to vote, and the percent
who reported voting in the 1972 election. These
items are presented, by sex, for persons reporting
origin or descent as German; Italian; Irish; French;
Polish; R ussian; E nglish, S co ttish , or W elsh;
Spanish; or Negro. This is the only Current Popula­
tion Report containing data for blacks identified in
response to a question on origin or descent as well as
to a question on race.

This report includes two tables with data on the
incidence of low-income (poverty) for various ethnic
groups. Table 5 presents the percent of persons
below the low-income level who were bom or had a
parent bom in any of 59 separate foreign countries or
areas. Another table (34) presents data on the differ­
ence between the poverty level and 1969 income, for
families with birth or parentage in 10 major European
nations, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and other America
(exclusive of the United States).

Series P-20, No. 249, “ Characteristics of the
P opulation by E thnic O rigin: March 1972 and
1971’’. This report presents statistics on selected

R e p o rt PC(2)-9B, “ L o w -In co m e Areas in
Large Cities’’. Counts of the foreign stock (persons

of foreign birth or parentage) originating in four areas
of the world are provided for the 50 largest cities
(individually and combined) and four boroughs of
New York City. Data are given according to resi­
dence in six aggregates of Census tracts within the
city, classified according to the percent of persons
bejow the poverty level in 1969. Foreign stock data
are furnished for: Latin America, Northw estern
Europe, Southern Europe, and Central and Eastern
Europe and U.S.S.R.

characteristics of persons who identified themselves
in March 1972, and March 1971 as being of eight
specified ethnic groups according to the question,
“ What is—’s origin or descent?” Groups covered
are German; Italian; Irish; French; Polish; Russian;
English, Scottish, or Welsh; and Spanish. There are
20 detailed tables) 10 for characteristics in 1972 and
10 identical tables for 1971.
Characteristics covered for both years are age and
sex, marital status, family status, size and type of
family, number of family members under age 18,
number of own children under age 3 and under age 6,
years of school completed, labor force and employ­
ment status, occupation, and income of persons and
families.
The opening pages include discussion and sum­
mary tables on the characteristics of the five largest
groups)persons of English, Scottish, or Welsh;
German; Irish; Spanish; and Italian origin or des­
cent.
Data on the incidence of low-income for these
groups are not contained in this publication; how­
ever, a limited amount of such data from the March
1973,1972, and 1971 CPS can be found in series P-60,
numbers 91, 86, and 81, respectively.

Joint population-housing reports
Series PHC(1), Census Tracts
This series of reports provides counts of the
foreign stock population (persons of foreign birth or
parentage) from each of 14 separate countries or
areas for 238 SMSA’s, central cities, component
places of 25,000 inhabitants or more, metropolitan
counties, and census tracts. Countries or areas in­
clude the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Ger­
many, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary,
the U .S.S.R ., Italy, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and
“ other Am erica.”
Report No. 29 of the PC(S1) Supplementary R e­
ports series, “ Population and Housing Characteris­
tics for the United States, by State: 1970,” provides
State and national data with the same table format as
the Census Tracts report series.




Series P-20, No. 221, “ Characteristics o f the
P opulation by Ethnic O rigin: November 1969’ ’.

This publication furnishes statistics on selected
characteristics of persons who identified themselves
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as of various ethnic groups according to responses to
question on origin or descent asked in the November
1969, Current Population Survey. This is the first
CPS including ethnic group identification. The re­
port contains data for those who reported German,
Irish, Italian, Polish, Russian, English, or Spanish
origin or descent.

E th n ic O rigin and E d u c a tio n a l A ttain m en t:
November 1969” . Series P-20, No. 226, “ Fertility
Variations by Ethnic Origin: Novem ber 1969,” pre­
sents detailed statistics on the number of women
ever married, and number of children ever bom , by
such characteristics as age, type of residence, re­
gion, relation to household head, years of school
completed, labor force status, employment status
and occupation of husband, and family income.

C haracteristics include age and sex; m other
tongue and current language; origin of household
head by origin of wife; number of related persons
under age 18 in husband-wife households; nativity
status; place of birth, and place of birth by that of
mother and father; literacy; educational attainment;
family income; labor force and employment status;
and occupation.

Series P-60, No. 91, “ Characteristics of the
Low-Incom e P opulation: 1972“ . This report has a

brief table (No. 11) with data on the incidence of
low-income status for seven separate ethnic groups.
These are: English, Scottish, or Welsh; French;
German; Irish; Italian; Polish; and Russian. Informa­
tion is provided for families, by sex of family head,
and for unrelated individuals, by sex. Data for 1971
and 1970 low-income status are available in series
P-60, Nos. 86 and 81.

Two other publications from this same survey pre­
sent additional statistics on these ethnic groups.
More detail on educational attainment can be found
in Current Population Reports, series P-20, No. 220,




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Appendix A.

How to Find Source Publications

Purchase
Publications listed in this directory (except some
BLS reports cited below) are available for purchase
from the United States Government Printing Office
(GPO). Orders should be addressed to the Superin­
tendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C. 20402. The GPO maintains
bookstores in Washington, D.C., and in other major
cities for over-the-counter purchases.1 In addition,
Bureau of the Census reports can be ordered from
field office of the Department of Commerce; and
BLS reports can be ordered from BLS regional of­
fices. Advance payment by check or money order, or
charge to a Superintendent of Documents deposit
account is required. Checks and m oney orders
should be made payable to the Superintendent of
Documents, regardless of where orders are placed.
Orders must clearly state the title of the report, the
series and report number, and the issuing agency.
Price inform ation is available from the issuing
agency and from GPO bookstores.
Use of special order forms for 1970 Census publi­
cations is recommended as there are more than 1,300
separate reports available. These forms, which will
expedite processing, can be obtained by writing the
P u b lications D istrib u tio n S ectio n , Social and
Economic Statistics Administration, Washington,
D.C. 20233, or telephoning (301)-763-5853. Please
specify the report series for which order forms are
needed.
The Bureau o f the Census Catalog is issued on a
current basis every 3 months and cumulated to an
annual volume. Monthly supplements list new publi­
cations as they appear. The catalog is available by
subscription from GPO.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has prepared a
complete list of major BLS publications issued be­
tween 1886 and 1971. It is available from GPO or *

Library reference
Reference copies of most reports cited in this di­
rectory are available at issuing agencies and at many
libraries. Many public libraries in major cities and
large college and university libraries have been de­
signated depositories for Government publications.
There are more than 1,100 such GPO Depository
Libraries located throughout the Nation. A listing of
these libraries is available without charge from the
L ib ra ry o f the G o v ern m en t P rinting O ffice,
Washington, D.C. 20402.
To supplement this system, the Bureau of the Cen­
sus has been furnishing copies of its reports to more
than 100 additional libraries, chosen on the basis of
population in the case of a city library, or enrollment
in the case of a college or university library (criteria
also used by GPO), as well as on the basis of distance
from the nearest GPO Depository Library.
The two depository systems make it possible for a
collection of most reports listed in this directory to
be available in every important research center.
Your local librarian should be able to furnish the
address of the nearest such depository.
Availability of unpublished data
Much more Bureau of the Census information is
available to the public than that contained in the
printed reports of censuses and surveys. The Bureau
has data files in the form of computer tapes (and

*It is recommended that the purchaser telephone GPO book­
stores to verify price, availability, and the time needed to locate
the desired publication(s). Orders for customer pickup can also be
placed by phone.




BLS regional offices. Publications released since
1971 are listed inPublications o f the Bureau o f Labor
Statistics, issued semi-annually. These listings can
be obtained free of charge from the BLS offices in
Washington, D.C. or from BLS regional offices.
The Special Labor Force Reports and BLS Re­
ports 402,417,420, and 431 cited in this directory can
be obtained free of charge, as long as supplies last, by
writing the Office of Information, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Washington,
D.C. 20212.

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other media) which can be processed to provide
m ore detailed tabulations and m ore num erous
cross-classifications than those appearing in the pub­
lications from the Census of Population and Hous­
ing: 1970, Census of Agriculture: 1969, and Current
Population Surveys.
Tape files are of two basic types: (1) Those con­
taining the basic records on the individual respon­
dents, that is, the actual responses of each person,
and (2) those containing statistical totals, that is,
summaries of data for geographic areas or for de­
tailed subject areas. Basic record tapes usually are
not available to the public, except for a limited
number of files from which any information that
could identify individual respondents has been re­
moved in compliance with laws respecting confiden­
tiality. However, the Bureau of the Census can pre­
pare (and does sell at cost) special tabulations from
these basic records, provided no information on an
individual person or household is disclosed. Sum­
mary tapes are available for purchase as they contain
no information on individual respondents.




Information on such tape files and special tabula­
tions is published in the Bureau o f the Census
Catalog , published quarterly and cumulated to an­
nual summaries. Detailed information on the availa­
bility and costs of unpublished data can be found on
pages 205-271 of the 1972 annual summary.
Other publications with useful information regard­
ing unpublished data as well as published reports
include: Sm a ll-A rea D ata N o te s , published
monthly, and Data Access Descriptions, published
at irregular intervals are available on a combined
subscription basis from the Data Access and Use
Laboratory, Data User Service Office, U.S. Bureau
of the Census, Washington, D.C. 20233. Data Ac­
cess Descriptions Nos. 13,18, 22-26, and 30, contain
detailed descriptions of 1970 census data available
on computer tape.
The 1970 Census Users' Guide (Parts I and II), can
be purchased from the Government Printing Office.
Part I is concerned with printed reports, and Part II
describes some of the data available on summary
tapes.

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Appendix B. Locater Guide for National Level Data in the 1970 Decen­
nial Census
The following tables have been prepared to aid the
user in locating national level data in the series of
1970 census reports containing large amounts of
statistical information on minority groups. Entries in
the locater tables for Volume I of the Census o f
Population: 1970 and for Volumes I and II of the
Census o f Housing: 1970, refer to table numbers in
the United States Summary reports only. Entries for
other series, such as the PC(2) and HC(7) Subject
Reports , refer to the report number. Such reports
contain fewer tables than the PC(1)-1, HC(1)-1, and
HC(2)-1 reports; and desired tables can be quickly
located by consulting tables of contents for the indi­
vidual reports listed.




In addition to reports included in the locater ta­
bles, there are a few other 1970 Census Final Reports
with N ational level data for blacks. These are
H C (4)-1, C o m p o n en ts o f In v e n to ry C h a n g e ,
“ United States Summary” ; HC(5), Residential Fi­
nance; HC(6), Plumbing Facilities and Estimates o f
Dilapidated Housing; PHC(2)-1, General D em o­
graphic Trends fo r M etropolitan Areas, 1960 to
1970, “ United States Summary;” and PHC(3)-1,
E m p lo ym en t P rofiles o f S e le c te d L ow -Incom e
Areas, “ United States Summary” . Statistical data
for persons of Spanish ancestry are also available in
the PHC(3)-1 report.

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Table B-1. Location of population data on the national level for Black Americans in Census of Population; 1970, Volume I, Part
1, “ United States Summary” (Report No. PC(1)-1)
Table numbers1

Subject area
Age2 ..............................
Place of birth..................
Country of birth or orgin...
Mother tongue................
Nativity, citizenship,
immigration..............
Residence in 1965...........
School enrollment............
Educational attainment....
Vocational training..........
Veteran status.................
Martial status.................
Marital history.................
Household characteristics3
Group quarters.................
Family characteristics......
Subfamilies....................
Children..........................
Unrelated individuals.......
Fertility..........................
Work disability.................
Labor force participation..
Employment status...........
Hours worked...................
Weeks worked in 1969......
Year last worked.............
Occupation......................
Industry..........................
Class of worker................
Place of work..................
Means of transportation
to work..................
Income of persons........
Income of fam ilies.......
Income of unrelated
individuals..................
Income of households3 .......
Earnings............................
Low-income (poverty) status
of persons...................
of fa m ilies..................
of unrelated individuals
Type of income...................
Housing characteristics4.....

50 52 53 85 190
69 87 191 213

86
86
68 86
72 87
74 88
75 88

190 195
196 230
197 217 267 268
89 156 157 198 199 201 209 213 220 231 249 254 264 268

88 200 201
71 87
54 90 203 211-213 216 250
203 210 211 213
54 85 204 258
54 89 205
54 89 206-209 246 250-257 259-266
206
54 85 89 90 93 95 206-209 214 216 220 250 260 261 263 265 266
83 94 95 206 246 250 252 257 259 265
76 89 212 213
89 220
77 78 90 201 209 213 215-217 219 220 248 250 253 261 262
77 90 201 215 217 219-221 248 253 261 262
217
79 93 218 247 253 262
219
81 88 91 93 201 213 220 223-228 230 231 233 255 262
82 92 233 236-238 240 241 256
93 225 238
87
87
84 213 220 244-246 248 249
83 94 250-252 254-257 266
83 94 250 252 257
258
94 201 227 228 240 241 247 253
95
95
95
94
95

220 259 267 268
259-261 263-266
259 265
95 257 264

1Tables 1-46, 47-67, 68-188, and 189-371, are located in chapters A, B, C, and D,
respectively.
2Most tables, particularly those in chapter “ D” , contain data according to age, sex, and type
of residence. Tables listed above for age indicate only those tables providing considerable age
detail.
V a rio u s reports from the Census of Housing: 1970, include numerous population




characteristics for households, household heads, and other members of households, crosstabulated by one or more housing items. Population items include: age, sex, presence of children,
year moved in, residence in 1965, educational attainment, labor force participation, employment
status, occupation, and income. See table B-3.
4See table B-3 for the location of housing characteristic data contained in both Census of
Housing: 1970, and Census of Population: 1970, reports.

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Table B-2, Location of population data on the national level for Black Americans in Census of Population: 1970, Volume II,

Subject Reports (Report Nos. PC(2)-1 A through PC(2)-10B1)
Report numbers2
Subject area3
Age................................................................................
Place of birth.................................................................
Country of birth or origin................................................
Mother tongue................................................................
Nativity, citizenship,
immigration............ ...................................................
Residence in 1965..........................................................
School enrollment...........................................................
Educational attainment.................. ................................
Vocational training.........................................................
Veteran status...............................................................
Marital status................................................................
Marital history................................................................
Household characteristics...............................................
Group quarters................................................................
Family characteristics.....................................................
Subfamilies....................................................................
Children..........................................................................
Unrelated individuals......................................................
Fertility................................... ......................................
Work disability................................................................
Labor force participation................................................
Employment status..........................................................
Hours worked..................................................................
Weeks worked.................................................................
Year last worked............................................................
Occupation.....................................................................
Industry..........................................................................
Class of worker...............................................................
Place of work.................................................................
Means of transportation
to work.......................................................................
Income of persons...........................................................
Income of fam ilies..........................................................
Income of unrelated
individuals.................................................................
Income of households.....................................................
Earnings ........................................................................
Low-income (poverty) status
of persons..................................................................
of families..................................................................
of unrelated individuals...............................................
Type of income................................................................
Housing characteristics...................................................

Best sources

Other reports with data

1B4D
2A2D
1C
1A

2B 3A 4C 6A 6E 9A
IB 2B 2C 3A 4E 5A 5B 9A 9B

1A 2D
2B 2D 2E
5A
2B 5B 8B
5C
6E
4C 6A
4C 4D
(4)
4E
4A 4B 8A 9A
4A
3A 4A 4B 6A 9A
9A
3A
6C
6A 6B
2B 6A 6B 9A
7A 7B
6A9A
6B
7A 7C 7E 7F 8B
7B 7C
7B
6D

4C 4E
1A IB 2C 3A 4A 4E 5A 6A 6E 7A 7B 9B
IB 2B 2D 3A 4D 4E 6A 6B 7A 8C 9A 9B
1A IB 2C 2D 3A 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 5A 5C 6A 6B 6C 6E 7A 7B 7D 8A 8C 9A 9B
6C 9A
4E 9A
1A IB 2B 3A 4A 4B 4D 4E 5A 5B 6B 6C 6E 7A 7B 9A
3A 4A 4B 4E
1A IB 2B 3A 4A 4B 4D 5A 6A 6B 6C 6E 8C 9B
3A 4B 6E
1A 2A 2B 2D 3A 5A 6A 6C 6E 7D 8C 9B
9A
IB 2B 2D 5A 5B 6B 6C 6E 8A 8C 9B
1A IB 4B 6B 8A 8C 9B
1A IB 2B 2C 2D 4B 6A 9A 9B
3A9A
1A IB 2B 2C 2D 3A 4A 4B 5A 5B 5C 6C 6E 8A 8C 9A 9B
1A IB 2C 2D 3A 4A 4B 5A 5B 5C 6C 6E 8A 8C 9B
1B 4A4B 6A 7D
IB 4A 4B 6C 6E 7A 7B 7D 8A 8B 8C 9B
3A 6C
1A IB 2B 2D 3A 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 5A 5B 5C 6B 6C 6E 7D 8A 8C 9A 9B
IB 5C 7D 7E
1A IB 6E 7A 7D 8C 9A
9A9B

9A9B
4B 6E
4A 8A

IB 2B 3A 4A 4C 4D 5B 6B 6C 8A 8C
1A IB 2B 2C 2D 3A 4B 5A 6A 6C 6E 7A 7B 7D 8C 9A 9B

9A
(4)
7A 7B 8B 9A

1A 8A 9B
8C
2B 4A 4C 4D 5C 6A 6C 6E 7D 7F

9A
9A
9A
8A 9A
(5)

IB
1A
1A
IB
IB

1The following Subject Reports contain either no data or extremely lim ited data on blacks at
the national level: ID, IE, IF, 1G, 10A, 10B.
^All report numbers listed are prefixed by PC(2)-.
W o s t reports contain data according to age, sex, and type of residence. Reports listed above
for age indicate only those reports which provide considerable age detail.
V a rio u s reports from the Census of Housing: 1970, include numerous population charac­




9B
IB
IB
6C
2B

2D 4A 6B 7A 7D 8A 8C
6B 8C 9B
6E 8C 9B
3A 4A 6E 9A 9B

teristics for households, household heads, and other members of households. Population items
include.- age, sex, presence of children, year moved in, residence in 1965, educational attain­
ment, labor force participation, employment status, occupation, and income. See table B - 3 .
5See table B-3 for the location of housing characteristic data contained in both Census of
Housing: 1970, and Census o f Population: 1970, reports.

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Table B-3. Location of housing data at the national level for households headed by Black Americans in the Census of '
Housing: 1970, and Census of Population: 1970, Reports; and of population data for Black Americans in the Census of Housing:
1970, Reports._________________________________________________________________________________________
Housing
subject area
Tenure.........................................
Number of rooms...........................
Number of persons........................
Persons per room.........................
Number of bedrooms....................
Plumbing fa cilitie s.......................
Presence or number of
bathrooms................................
Source of water supply
and type of sewage
disposal...................................
Kitchen facilities..........................
Private access to unit...................
Number of units in
structure..................................
Year structure b u ilt......................
Elevator in structure......................
Availability of
telephone..................................
Heating equipment.......................
Air conditioning................... ........
Automobile availability..................
Ownership of second
home........................................
Fuels...........................................
Selected appliances......................
Value of owner
occupied units..........................
Value of unit/income....................
Rent for renter
occupied units..........................
Rent as a percent of
income.....................................
Mobile homes...............................

Table numbers
in HC(1)-1
report
8 9 13 27 28 35 37
9 14 36
9 14 36
9 14 36
28, 38
8 13 35 36

Table numbers
in HC(2)-1
report
13-17
11-16
11-15
11 12
11-13
11 12

17 18
14-17
15 16 18
14-17

11 15 18

27 37

1 -8
1 -8
1 -8
1 -7
2 -4 7
1 -7

Table numbers
in PC(1)-1
report

—
—

Report numbers
in PC(2)Subject Reports series

95
__
—

IB
IB
IB
IB

95

3A 6E 9A 9B

_
_

2B
3A
2B
3A

4A 6E 9A 9B
6E
6E 9A
9A 9B

_

IB

23 57

_

27 37
8 13 35
8 13 35

Report numbers in
Series HC(7)
reports

467
37
7

—
—
—

IB
6E

—
—

IB 3A 9A 96
IB 9A 9B
—

9 14 27 37
27 37
28 38

16-18
11-16 18
12

1 -5 7 8
1 -8
27

9 14 36
27 37
27 37
27 37

—
11 14 16
11 12 16
13 16

6
3 -7
2 -7
2 5 -7

28 38
28 38
28 38

13

—
—
—
—
—

—

9A9B
6E9A
1B9B
1B9B

—

—

—

—

13

27
47
2 -4 6 7

—

9A

8 13 35
—

11
14 15 17 18

1 -5 7
2 -4 5 7

95
—

IB 3A 6E 9A 9B
2B

8 13 35 37

12 16 17

1 -7

95

IB 3A 6E 9A 9B

—

2-7
6

12-15 17 18
(See number of units iin structure.)

2A 9A 9B

Population characteristics1
of households, household
heads, and other house­
hold members in “ HC”
reports

—

11 17 18
11 17 18

—

—

_
27 37

1 -4 6 -8
1 -8
1 3 -6 8
45
1 2 5 -7
5
3 56
35
3 -6
5
1 -8

—

11-13 16
11
i i i
i

Sex of head..................................
Age of head..................................
Children......................................
Marital status of head..................
Year moved into un it....................
Residence in 1965........................
Educational attainment.................
Labor force status........................
Occupation...................................
Industry........................................
Income and/or earnings.................

11-14-16 17

Components of Inventory Change, “ United States Summary;” HC(5), Residential Finance; and HC(6), Plum bing Facilities and Estimates o f Dilapidated Housing.

1These population items are usually cross-tabulated with one or more housing characteristics.
NOTE: National level data for black occupied housing are also available in HC(4)-1,




See location of population data
for black-Americans in the Census
of Population: 1970, tables for
the population characteristics
presented in the PC (1) and PC(2)
series of reports.

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Table B-4. Location of population data on the national level for Persons of Spanish Ancestry in Census of Population: 1970,
Volume lf Part 1, Characteristics of the Population, “United States Summary” (Report No. PC(1)-1)
Subject area
Age2 ................................
Place of birth...................
Country of birth or origin..
Mother tongue.................
Nativity, citizenship,*
immigration*............
Residence in 1965...........
School enrollment............
Educational attainment....
Vocational training*........
Veteran status.................
Marital status.................
Marital history*..............
Household characteristics3
Group quarters.................
Family characteristics......
Subfamilies....................
Children..........................
Unrelated individuals.......
Fertility..........................
Work disability*..............
Labor force participation..
Employment status...........
Hours worked...................
Weeks worked in 1969......
Year last worked.............
Occupation......................
Industry..........................
Class of worker................
Place of work..................
Means of transportation
to work..................
Income of persons........
Income of fam ilies.......
Income of unrelated
individuals..................
Income of households3 .......
Earnings............................
Low-income (poverty) status
of persons...................
of fa m ilies..................
of unrelated individuals
Type of income...................
Housing characteristics4.....

Table numbers1
85 190
87 191 213

86
86
86
87
88
88

190
196 230
197 217 267 268
89 156 157 198 199 201 209 213 220 231 249 254 263 268

88 200 201

87
90 203 211-213 216 250
203 210 211 213
85 204 258
89 205
89 206-209 246 250-257 259-266
206
85 89 90 93 95 206-209 214 216 220 250 260 261 263 265 266
83 94 95 206 246 250 252 257 259 265
89 212 213
89 220
90 201 209 213 215-217 219 220 248 250 253 261 262
90 201 215 219-221 248 253 261 262
217
93 218 247 253 262
219
91 93 201 213 220 223-228 230 231 234 255 262
92 234 236-238 240 241 256
93 225 238
87
87
213 220 244-246 248 249
94 250-252 254-257 266
94 250 252 257
258
94 201 227 228 240 241 247 253
95
95
95
94
95

220 259 267 268
259-261 263-266
259 265
95 257 264

detail.
V a rio u s reports from the Census of Housing: 1970, include population characteristics
for households, household heads, and other household members, cross-tabulated by one or more
housing characteristic items. See table B-6.
4See table B-6 for the location of housing characteristic data in Census of Housing:
1970, and Census of Population: 1970, reports.

’ Tables 1-46, 47-67, 68-188, and 189-371, are located in chapters A, B, C, and D,
respectively. Chapters A and B contain no data for persons of Spanish ancestry. Data in volume I
reports are generally for Spanish ancestry identified as persons of Spanish heritage; however,
items from the 5 percent questionnaire marked with an asterisk (*) are tabulated using the
Spanish origin or descent identifier.
*IV!ost tables, particularly those in chapter D, contain data according to age, sex, and type of
residence, Tables listed above for “ age” indicate only those tables providing considerable age




68

Table B-5. Location of population data on the national level for persons of Spanish Ancestry in Census of Population: 1970,
Volume II, Subject Reports (Report Numbers PC(2)-1A through -10B)1
Report numbers2
b U D ject a re a

A g e i..............................................................................
Place of birth.................................................................
Country of birth or origin................................................
Mother tongue................................................................
Nativity, citizenship,
immigration................................................................
Residence in 1965..........................................................
School enrollment...........................................................
Educational Attainment...................................................
Vocational training.........................................................
Veteran status................................................................
Marital status................................................................
Marital history................................................................
Household characteristics...............................................
Group quarters................................................................
Family characteristics.....................................................
Subfamilies...................................................................
Children.........................................................................
Unrelated individuals......................................................
Fertility.........................................................................
Work disability................................................................
Labor force participation................................................
Employment status..........................................................
Hours worked..................................................................
Weeks worked.................................................................
Year last worked............................................................
Occupation.....................................................................
Industry.........................................................................
Class of worker...............................................................
Place of work.................................................................
Means of transportation
to work.......................................................................
Income of persons...........................................................
Income of fam ilies..........................................................
Income of unrelated
individuals.................................................................
Income of households.....................................................
Earnings ........................................................................
Low-income (poverty) status
of persons..................................................................
of families..................................................................
of unrelated individuals...............................................
Type of income................................................................
Housing characteristics...................................................

Other reports with data

Best sources
1C
ID
1A
1A

ID4 IE
IE
1C ID
ID IE

6A 6E 9A
1C 2A 2D 3A 4C 5A 9A 9B
2B 3A 4C 4D 5A 5B 9A

1A 1C ID
2D
5A
8B
5C
6E
4A
4D
(5)
4E
4A9A
4A
4A
9A
3A
6C
6A6B
6A 6B
7A 7B
6A9A
6B
7A 7C 7E 7F 8B
7B 7C
7B
6D

2D 3A 4C 4D 5A
1A ID IE 2B 5A 6A 6E 7A 7B 9B
1C ID IE 6A 6B 7A 8C 9A 9B
1A 1C ID IE 3A 4A 5A 5B 5C 6A 6B 6E 7A 7B 7D 8C 9A 9B
1C9A
1A 1C
1C 4A
1A 1C
1C 6E
1A 1C
9A
1C ID
1A 1C
1A 1C
9A
1A 1C
1A 1C
1C ID
1C ID
6C
1A 1C
1C ID
1A 1C
9B

9B
6E
4A

1C ID IE 4A 8C
1A 1C ID IE 3A 5A 6C 7A 7B 7D 8A 8C 9A 9B

9A
(5)
7A 7B 8B 9A

1A 1C ID IE 8C 9B
8C
1C 5C 6C 6E 7D 7F

9A
9A
9A
9A
(6)

1C
1A
1A
1C
1C

1The following Subject Reports contain either no data or extremely limited data on persons
of Spanish ancestry at the National level: IB, IF, 1G, 2C, 2E, 4B, 10A, 10B. Most Subject

ID
1C
1C
ID
ID

ID IE 5A 6B 6E 7A 7B 9A
4C
ID IE 4A 5A 6B 6E 8C 9B
ID IE 5A 6B 6C 6E 7D 8A 8C 9B
IE 5A 6B 6C 6E
ID IE 6B 9B
ID IE 9A 9B
ID
ID
IE
IE

IE 3A
IE 4A
4A 6A
6C 6E

5A 5C 6C 6E 8C 9A 9B
5A 5C 6C 6E 8C 9A 9B
7D
7A 7B 7D 8B 8C 9B

ID IE 4A 5A 5C 6B 6C 6E 7D 8C 9A 9B
IE 5C 7D 7E
ID IE 6E 7A 7D 8C

IE 9B
ID IE 4A 6B 7A 7D 8C 9B
ID IE 6B 8C 9B
IE 6C 6E 7B 8C 9B
IE 4A 6E 9A 9B

R e p o rt PC(2)-1D, “ Persons of Spanish Surname,” contain data only for 5 southwestern
States— Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. The surname identifier is not

Reports present Spanish ancestry data using the Spanish origin or descent identifier; however,

used in any 1970 Census tabulations for other States.

all the other Spanish identifiers are used occasionally among reports of this series.
2AII report numbers listed are prefixed by PC(2)-.
3Most reports contain data according to age, sex, and type of residence. Reports listed above
for age indicate only those reports which provide considerable age detail.

V a rio u s reports from the Census of Housing: 19 70 include population characteristics for
households, household heads, and other household members. See table B-6.
6See Table B-6 for the location of housing characteristic data in both Census o f Housing:
1970, and Census of Population: 1 9 70 reports.




69

Table B-6. Location of housing data at the national level for households headed by persons of Spanish ancestry in the Census
of Housing: 1970, and Census of Population: 1970, Reports; and of Population Data for persons of Spanish ancestry in the
Census of Housing: 1970, Reports.
Report numbers in
Series HC(7) Housing
Subject Reports1

Housing
Subject area
Tenure..................................................................................
Number of rooms..................................................................
Number of persons...............................................................
Persons per room..................................................................
Number of bedrooms.............................................................
Plumbing facilities..........................................................
Presence or number of
bathrooms........................................................................
Source of water supply and
type of sewage disposal....................................................
Kitchen fa cilities..................................................................
Private access to u n it...........................................................
Number of units in structure.................................................
Year structure built...............................................................
Elevator in structure.............................................................
Availability of telephone.......................................................
Heating equipment................................................................
Air conditioning...................................................................
Availability of automobile......................................................
Ownership of second home....................................................
Fuels....... ...........................................................................
Selected appliances.............................................................
Value of owner-occupied units...............................................
Value of unit/income.............................................................
R ent....................................................................................
Rent as a percent of income.................................................
Mobile homes................................................ ......................

Report numbers in

Table numbers in
PC(1)-1, “United
States Summary”
95

1-7
1-7
1-7
1-7
—
1-7

—
—
—
95

2357

—

_

—
467
—
37
—
7
—
1-5 7
—
1-7
—
—
—
6
—
3-6
—
2-6
—
256
—
—
—
—
—
—
1-5 7
95
—
2-7
95
1-7
—
2-5 7
6
(see also: number of units in structure.)

PC(2)-Subject
Reports Series
1C
1C
1C
1C

ID
ID
ID
ID

IE
IE
IE
IE
_
1C ID IE

4A 6E 9A 9B
6E
6E 9A
9A 9B
6E 9A 9B

1C ID IE
—

6E
—
1C ID IE 9A
1C ID IE 9A 9B
—
9A9B
6E9A
1C ID IE 9B
ID IE 9B
—
—
1C ID IE 9A
1C ID IE 6E 9A 9B
—
1C ID IE 6E 9A 9B
9A9B

Population C h a ra c te ristic s2
of households, hou se ho ld heads,
and other household m em bers in
the HC(7) se rie s of reports

Sex of head...........................................................................
Age of head.........................................................................
Children...............................................................................
Marital status of head..........................................................
Year moved into u n it............................................................
Residence in 1965 ................................................................
Educational attainment.........................................................
Labor force sta tu s................................................................
Occupation...........................................................................
Industry...............................................................................
Income and/or earnings.........................................................

1-4 6 7
1-7
1 3-6
45
1 2 5-7
5
3-6
35
3 56
5
1-7

1Data on the national level are not provided for persons of Spanish ancestry in
reports other than series HC(7).

Census of

^hese population items are usually cross-tabulated with one or more housing characteristics.

Housing: 1970,




70

Table B-7. Location of population and housing data on the national level for races other than White or Negro in Census of

Population: 1970, and Census of Housing: 1970, Reports (Series PC(1)-1, PC(2), HC(7».
Subject area
Age2 .....................................................................
Place of b irth.......................................................
Country of birth or origin.......................................
Mother tongue......................................................
Nativity, citizenship,
immigration......................................................
Residence in 1965 ................................................
School enrollment.................................................
Educational attainment.........................................
Vocational training................................................
Veteran status ......................................................
Marital sta tu s......................................................
Marital history......................................................
Household characteristics.....................................
Group quarters......................................................
Family characteristics...........................................
Subfamilies...........................................................
Children................................................................
Unrelated individuals............................................
Fertility.................................................................
Work disability......................................................
Labor force participation........................................
Employment status................................................
Hours worked.........................................................
Weeks worked.......................................................
Year last worked....................................................
Occupation...........................................................
Industry................................................................
Class of worker.....................................................
Place of work.........................................................
Means of transportation
to work.............................................................
Income of persons.................................................
Income of fam ilies................................................
Income of unrelated
individuals.........................................................
Income of households............................................
Earnings ...............................................................
Low-income (poverty) status
of persons.........................................................
of families........................................................
of unrelated individuals.....................................
Type of income......................................................
Housing characteristics.........................................

IF 1G
IF 1G

190
—
—

—

IF

—

_
_
—
—
—
211
—
—

—
_

_
—
213
—

—

—
—
—

Table numbers in

Census of Housing: 1970, 1
Subject Report HC(7)-9
—
—
—
—

IF 1G
IF 1G 5A
IF 1G 5A 5B
—
—
IF 1G 3A 4C 4D
4C 4D
IF 1G
4E
IF 1G 4A 9A
4A
IF 1G 4A
IF 1G 9A
IF 1G 3A
IF
IF
IF
IF

_
—
—
—
—
—
_
—
6
—
—

—
—
—
—
—

__
—
—
—
—

1G
1G
1G
1G
—
IF 1G 7A
IF 1G 7B
IF 1G 7B
—

—
—
—
—
—
—
—

—
—

IF 1G
IF 1G 9A

—
—

—
—

IF 1G 9A
—
—

6
—

_

IF
IF
IF
IF
IF

—
—
—
—

1The Census of Housing: 1970, Subject Report , HC(7)-9, “ Housing of Selected Racial
Groups*, is the only Census of Housing: 1970, publication with data on non-Negro m inority
races. The following characteristic items for American Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos,
and Koreans are presented: tenure, number of rooms, number of persons, persons per room,
number of bedrooms, plumbing facilitie s, presence and number of bathrooms, source of water




Report numbers in Series
PC(2)- Subject Reports

Table numbers in PC(1)-1
“United States Summary”

1G 9A 9B
1G 9A
1G 9A
1G
1G

—
—

—
—
—
1l - 6

supply, type of sewage disposal, kitchen facilitie s, private access to unit, number of units in
structure, year structure built, elevator in structure, heating equipment, air conditioning,

availability of automobile, fuels, selected appliances, value, rent, and the relationship of value
and rent to income,
lim it e d age detail.

71

Table B-8. Location of data at the national level for ethnic groups other than persons of Spanish ancestry, In Census of

Population: 1970, Reports
Subject area

Table numbers
in PC(1H
“United States Summary"
__
—
86 192
86 193

Age1 ....................................................................................
Place of birth.......................................................................
Country of birth or.origin......................................................
Mother tongue.................. ...................................................
Nativity, citizenship,
immigration......................................................................
Residence in 1965................................................................
School enrollment.................................................................
Educational attainment.........................................................
Vocational training...............................................................
Veteran status......................................................................
Marital statu s......................................................................
Marital history......................................................................
Household characteristics.....................................................
Group quarters......................................................................
Family characteristics...........................................................
Subfam ilies..........................................................................
Children................................................................................
Unrelated individuals.............................. ..............................
Fertility................................................................................
Work disability......................................................................
Labor force participation......................................................
Employment status................................................................
Hours worked........................................................................
Weeks worked.......................................................................
Year last worked..................................................................
Occupation...........................................................................
Industry................................................................................
Class of worker.....................................................................
Place of work.......................................................................
Means of transportation
to work.............................................................................
Income of persons.................................................................
Income of fam ilies................................................................
Income of unrelated
individuals.......................................................................
Income of households...........................................................
Earnings..............................................................................
Low-income (proverty) status
of persons........................................................................
of families........................................................................
of unrelated individuals.....................................................
Typ e o f in com e ......................................................................
Housing characteristics2.......................................................
1The indicated

Subject Report

provides the most age detail for these ethnic groups.




Report numbers in Series
PC(2>- Subject Reports
1A
—
1A 3A 4A 4C 4D 5A 5B 9A
1A
1A5A
1A
5A
1A 4A 5B

195
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
—
__
__
—
—
__
—

—
1A 4C 4D
40
1A
1A
1A4A9A
—
4A
1A
1A3A
—
1A
1A
—
__

—
—

—
1A4A9A

—
—

1A
—
—

—
__
—
—

9A
1A9A
1A
—
—

—

_

1A
—
1A
—

housing data were published for ethnic groups other than persons of Spanish ancestry.

72

Appendix C.

State, Area, Place, and Other Sub-National Level Data
in the 1970 Census
series. Data for blacks and for persons of Spanish
ancestry in low-income areas of large cities can be
found in the PHC(3) Census Employment Survey
publications and in the PC(2)-3A and -9B Subject
Reports; and block level statistics for blacks in ur­
banized areas are contained in the HC(3) series of
reports.
As mentioned elsewhere in this directory, subNational data for minority races other than black,
Spanish ancestry identified by other than the herit­
age term, and other ethnic groups, are available in
Subject Reports PC(2)-1F and -1G; PC(2)-1C, -ID,
and -IE ; and PC(2)-1A, respectively. The following
table lists the States, areas, and places for which
characteristic data are presented for these minority
groups in the six above-mentioned Subject Reports .

Data for blacks and for persons of Spanish ances­
try identified by the Spanish heritage term are avail­
able for geographic regions and divisions, States,
counties, areas, places, and census tracts among the
PC(1), HC(1), HC(2), and PH C(l) series of reports.
For smaller places (less than 50,000 inhabitants)
counties, and census tracts, characteristic informa­
tion is presented only if the minority group’s popula­
tion is 400 or more. In the HC(2) series, the publica­
tion requirement is a 25,000 or more minority popula­
tion. Occasional Subject Reports (series PC(2) and
HC(7)) also contain some State, area, and place data
for these two groups. Among these is “ Negro Popu­
lation’’ (PC(2)-1B), which has information on blacks
in 20 States, 34 SMSA’s, and 48 cities.
In addition, area and place data are available for
blacks in the HC(4), HC(6), and PHC(2) report




73

Table C-1. Availability of State, area, and place data for minorities in Census of Population: Volume II, Subject Reports
PC(2)-1A through PC(2)-1G (excluding Negro and Spanish heritage)
State

Minority groups1

State

Minority groups*

Ariz.
Calif.

I M NS
CFHIKM
NSPRU
MNS
R
PRSU
CFHJ
CFIJMSPR
S
R
IM S
I
I
PRSU

N.M.
N.Y.
N.C.
N. Dak.
Ohio
Okla.
Ore.
Pa.
S. Dak.
Tex.
Utah
Wash.
Wis.

IMNS
CFIJPRSU
I
I
RS
I
I
PRS
I
IMNS
I
FI J
I

Colo.
Conn.
Fla.
Hawaii
III.
Ind.
Mass.
Mich.
Minn.
Mon.
N.J.

Standard metropolitan statistical area

Minority groups

Alburquerque, N.M.................................
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Garden Grove, C a lif..
Austin, Tex................................... ........
Bakersfield, C a lif..................................
Baltimore, Md........................................
Boston, M a s s ........................................
Bridgeport, Conn...................................
Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito, Tex.....
Buffalo, N.Y...........................................
Chicago, III............................................
Cleveland, Ohio............. ........................
Corpus Christi, Tex................................
Dallas, Tex...........................................
Denver, Colo..........................................
Detroit, M ich.........................................
El Paso, Texas......................................
Fayetteville, N.C.....................................
Fort Smith, Arkansas-Tex.......................
Fort Worth, Tex......................................
Fresno, Calif..........................................
Honolulu, Hawaii...................................
Houston, Tex.........................................
Jersey City, N.J......................................
Laredo, Tex............................................
Lawton, Okla.........................................
Los Angeles-Long Beach, Calif................
McAllen-Pharr-Edinburg, Tex...................
Miami, Fla.............................................
Milwaukee, Wis......................................
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn....................
Hew York, N.Y........................................
Newark, N.J...........................................
Norfolk-Portsmouth, Va...........................
Oklahoma City, Okla...............................
Oxnard-Ventura, Calif.............................
Paterson-Clifton-Passaic, N.J..................
Philadelphia, Pa.-N.J.............................
Phoenix, Ariz..........................................
Pittsburgh, Pa.......................................
Portland, Oreg.-Wash.............................
Providence-Pawtucket-Warwick, R.I.-Mass.
Pueblo, Colo..........................................
Sacramento, Calif..................................
Salinas-Monterey, Calif..........................
San Antonio, Tex....................................
San Bernardino-Riverside-Ontario, Calif...
San Diego, Calif....................................
San Francisco-Oakland, Calif..................
San Jose, Calif......................................
Santa Barbara, Calif..............................
Seattle-Everett, Wash.............................
Stockton, Calif.......................................
Tacoma, Wash.......................................
Tucson, Ariz...........................................
Tulsa, Okla............................................
Washington, D.C.-Md.-Va.......................

IN S
El J L M N S
N
N

I

CELR
R
MNS
EIL
CEFIJLMSPR
EL

MNS
IMNS
IJMNS
EILMS
MNS

I
I

N
JMNS
CFHJK
IMNS
ELPRSU
MNS
I
CEFI J K L M N R S U
MNS
ELRSU
EIL
EIL
CEFIJKLPRSU
ELPRS
F

I

MNS
ELR
El L P R S

I MNS
EL
I
EL
N
Cl J M N S
FN
MNS
IMNS
CEIJLN
CEFI J L M N R S
CEFI J L M N S
N
CEFIJL
FN
I
IMNS
I
CEFI L

1See: "Key to Groups” on page 75 for explanation of symbols.




74

Table C-1. Availability of State, area, and place data for minorities in Census of Population: Volume II, Subject Reports
PC(2)-1A Through PC(2)-1G (excluding Negro and Spanish heritage)-Continued
Minority groups

Place

n -----------

Albuquerque, New Mex. .....
Anaheim, Calif..................
Austin, Tex........................
Boston, Mass....................
Bridgeport, Conn...............
Brownsville, Tex.................
Camden, N J ......................
Chicago, III........... ............
Cleveland, Ohio.................
Corpus Christi, Tex............
Dallas, Tex........................
Denver, Colo......................
Detroit, Mich....................
East Los Angeles, Calif. (U)
El Monte, Calif..................
El Paso, Tex.......................
Fort Worth, Tex..................
Fremont, Calif...................
Fresno, Cal if.......................
Hartford, Conn..................
Hayward, Calif..................
Hialeah, Fla......................
Honolulu, Hawaii..............
Houston, Tex......................
Jersey City, N J..................
Laredo, Tex.......................
Long Beach, Calif..............
Lorain, Ohio......................
Los Angeles, Calif..............
Lubbock, Tex.....................
McAllen, Tex......................
Miami, Fla........................
New York, N.Y...................
Newark, N J .......................
Norwalk, Calif...................
Oakland, Calif...................
Oxnard, Calif.....................
Passaic, N.J......................
Paterson, N J .....................
Philadelphia, Pa................
Phoenix, Ariz.....................
Pico Rivera, Calif...............
Pueblo, Colo......................
Riverside, Calif..................
Rochester, N.Y...................
Sacramento, Calif..............
Salinas, Calif....................
San Antonio, Tex................
San Bernardino, Calif........
San Diego, Calif................
San Francisco, Calif..........
San Jose, Calif..................
Santa Ana, Calif................
Santa Barbara, Calif.........
Santa Clara, Calif.............
Seattle, Wash....................
Tampa, F la .......................
Tucson, Ariz......................

N
MNS
CR
R
MNS
R
CFJMPRS
R
MNS
MNS
MNS
S
MNS
N
MNS
MNS
N
N
R
N
SU
CFJ
MNS
RS
MNS
N
R
CFJMNRS
N
S
RSU
CFJPRSU
PRS
N
CN
N
R
R
PRS
MNS
MNS
NS
N
R
CJN
N
MNS
N
FMNS
CFJMNS
JMNS
MNS
N
N
CFJ
S
MNS

Key to Groups
Symbol
C
E
F
H
I
J
K
L

Minority Group
Chinese
Ethnic Groups other than persons of
Spanish ancestry
Filipino
Hawaiian
American Indian
Japenese
Korean
Persons of birth or parentage
in Mexico, Cuba, or other Latin
America




Report Containing
Data on this Group

Symbol
M
N
P
R
S
U

PC(2)-1G
PC(2)-1A
PC(2)-1G
PC(2)-1G
PC (2)-lF
PC(2)-1G
PC(2)-1G
PC(2)-1A

75

Minority Group
Mexican Origin or Descent
Spanish Surname
Puerto Rican Origin or Descent
Puerto Rican birth or parentage
Spanish Origin or Decent
Cuban Origin or Descent

Report Containing
Data on this Group
PC(2)-1C
PC(2)-1D
PC(2)-1C
PC(2)-1E
PC(2)-1C
PC(2)-1C

Appendix D.

Previously Issued Sources of Data for Black Americans1
from the Current Population Survey
Reports and the Bureau of the Census reports in the
P-20, P-23, and P-60 series of Current Population
Reports issued since January 1, 1965, with coverage
similar to many of those listed in the individual
source listings for black Am ericans.2
Historical data from CPS tabulations on the labor
force, employment, and related items which are
published monthly in Em ployment and Earnings are
availab le in back issu e s of E m p lo y m e n t and
E arnings, the annual M anpow er R eport o f the
President, and the Handbook o f Labor Statistics .

In many of the individual source listings for d&ta
on blacks from the Current Population Survey,
references are made to one or more previous reports
containing earlier data on the same subject areas.
Although statistics by race have been part of CPS
tabulations since 1954, in most cases the data in
earlier reports are more limited in detail, and are
more likely to be tabulated for “ Negro and other
r a c e s ,” or “ n o n w h ite,” than for blacks. The
following tables list BLS Special Labor Force
*A11 sources of data for persons of Spanish ancestry and for
other ethnic groups from the CPS are listed in the individual
source listings of this directory. Detail on ethnicity was not
included in the CPS prior to November 1969, and was not
included on a monthly basis prior to March 1973.




2Reports of an advance or preliminary nature are not listed
except those which contain data more recent than is found in the
latest final report on the subject. The data in such advance
releases are incorporated in subsequent final reports.

76

Table D-1. Subject index to BLS Special Labor Force Reports issued since January 1965
Report numbers

Subject area

Primary sources

Labor Force participation3...............................

163 152 142 129 116
69 52

Reason for nonparticipation
in the labor fo rce...........................................
Employment status3.........................................

163
110
163
129

152
97
157
116

142 129 116
75
152 146 142
69 52

Reason for unemployment...............................

163
116
163
162
91
162
91

157
106
152
141
76
141
76

152
78
142
127
62
127
62

Reason for leaving last job..............................
Number of spells of unemployment in prior years....................................
Duration of unemployment...............................

Jobsearch methods..........................................
Hours worked and/or
full-time, part-time
work schedules...............................................
Overtime hours and premium pay for overtime....................................
Weeks worked.................................................
Reason for less than yearround work.....................................................
Occupation3 ................................ ...................

Occupational mobility.....................................
Multiple jobholders.........................................
Job tenure......................................................
Industry..........................................................
Income and/or earnings...................................

Poverty areas...................................................
Veterans.........................................................
Summer jobs...................................................
Labor force projections....................................
Type of residence and/or4
regions and smaller areas...............................
Marital statu s................................................
Type of family or household
(including family or house­
hold status)....................................................
Presence of children,
Characteristics of children
School enrollment...........................................

Educational attainment...................................
High School dropouts.......................................
Year last attended school...............................

142 129
129
115 107
48
115 107
58 48

Other sources1
2
165
147
128
111
94
65
—

164
145
127
109
92
64

162
144
126
107
91
62

161
141
125
105
87
56

159
140
124
103
83
55

158
137
121
101
80
54

155
135
120
100
76
53

154
134
119
99
74
50

153
133
117
98
73

149
131
115
97
68

148
130
114
96
66

165
145
126
107
91
64
158
98

164
144
125
106
87
60
155
60

162
141
124
105
85
58
147

161
140
121
103
84
56
145

158
138
120
101
83
55
135

155
137
117
100
80
54
131

154
135
115
99
78
53
124

153
134
114
98
75
50
121

149
131
111
96
68
48
111

148
130
109
94
66

147
127
108
92
65

—

163 161 158 152 148 147 142 140 135 129 128
125 124 116 111 104 103 98 92 83 69 65
56 53

163 150
162 141 136 127 115
107 91 76 48

_____

136 113 81

—

162
91
162
91
163
116

141
76
141
76
152
107

127
62
127
64
142
102

72
115
48
115
62
138
52

165 164 153 144 134 130 128 97 50

107

165

129
48

164
141
117
92
66

112 77
162 141 127 115 62
48
143 132 82

109
167
128
122
138

104 101 75
149 137 126

164
94
165
130
64
165

153
80
164
120
50
154

166 165 164 163 155 153 152 145 144 142 139
134 131 130 129 128 123 121 116 113 109 108
104 101 100 97 81 75 69 64 62 56 52

107

84
166 139 123 90 63
Cl
D1

162
140
115
91
65

161
135
114
87
64

158
131
111
85
62

155
130
109
84
56

153
128
108
83
55

148
127
103
80
54

147
125
101
76
53

145
124
100
75

158
107
164
120
50

155
104
155
117

148
103
154
99

147
98
153
97

143
87
145
94

140
68
144
83

135
56
134
80

128 125 124
55
131 130 128
66 64 54

153
50
162
76
134

149
48
152
62
127

144 130 120 94 83 82 80 65

144
121
98
69

—

__
161
111
165
121
53
107
—
_____

119 74 73
114 96 74
144
64
153
99

130 120
50
146 144
94 80

—
164
64
163
91
154

142 141 129 127 117 116 115 107
52
115 107 101 97

134

164 162 153 144 130 120 94 80 64 50

159 158 147 135 128
124 111 98 87 68
CC
DO

155 145 131 127 121 115 108 107 100 99
85 66 54

161
103
155
100
155
100

143
120
94
68

—

151
65
145
85
145
85

148
53
131
66
131
66

140 125
121 108
54
121 108
54

157 155 145 133 131 122 121 117 112 108
106 100 97 66 54
see:school enrollment and educational attainmenl
listings above
_____

employment status, and occupation cross-classified with other characteristics. Only reports with
annual average data and selected reports with emphasis on these items are listed as primary
sources.
"Type of residence refers to urban-rural, farm-nonfarm, metropolitan-nonmetropolitan. Re­
gions and sm aller areas refers to regions, States, and individual areas or places. Few of these
listing s contain other than limited regional level data.

1Reports which either focus on the indicated subject or have substantial data on the subject. If
sources are listed, these reports represent exclusive sources, which may have only
limited data on the subject.
2Amount of detail among these sources varies. Some reports may contain only very limited data
on the subject.
3Most of the Special Labor Force Reports contain data on labor force participation,

no other




108 100

—

77

Table P-2. Title Index to BLS Special Labor Force Reports with CPS data on the Black Population
Report
number

Date of text
publication
in MLR

MLR
reprint
^number

166

5/74

2972

165

5/74

2971

164

4/74

2959

163

2/74

2943

162

2/74

2942

161

1/74

2941

159*
158

10/73
9/73

2916
2911

157

8/73

2906

155

6/73

2898

151

2/73

2860

150

2/73

2859

149

12/72

2847

146

2/72

2820

143

3/72

2795

138

10/71

2765

136

8/71

2754

128

2/71

2710

Page Number
of
Directory

Title
“Multiple Jobholding in 1972
and 1973”
“Children of Working Mothers,
March 1973”
“Marital and Family Characteristics
of the Labor Force in March 1973”
“Changes in the Employment Situation
in 1973”
“Work Experience of the Population
in 1972”
“Educational Attainment of Workers,
March 1973”
“Going Back to School at 35”
“Employment of School Age Youth,
October 1972”
“Job Losers, Leavers, and Entrants:
Traits and Trends”
“Employment of High School Graduates
and Dropouts, October 1972”
“Employment of Recent College
Graduates”
“Job Seeking Methods Used by
Unemployed Workers”
“The Employment Situation of Vietnam
Era Veterans”
“An Analysis of Unemployment by
Household Relationship”
“Usual Weekly Earnings of American
Workers”
“Occupational Characteristics of
Urban Workers, 1970”
“Recent Trends in Overtime Hours
and Premium Pay”
“Students and Summer Job:
October 1969”

’ Indicates data on blacks are very limited.




78

20

Report Numbers of previous Special Labor
Force Reports of similar title
Subject area coverage issued since 1965
139 123 901 631

511

20

154 134 931

20

153 144 130 120 94 80 64 50

21

152 142 129 116 69 52

21

141 127 115 107 91 76 62 48

21

148 140 125 103 92 83 65 53

21
21

—

22

106

22

145 131 121 108 100 85 66 54
(see also 9/74 MLR)

22

—

22

—

22

137 126 (See also, 8/74 MLR.)

22

—

23

—

23

(See BLS Report No. 431, described on p. 23.)

23

113 81 72 571

23

147 135 124 111 97 87 68 55

Table P-3. Title Index to Current Population Reports with Data on the Black Population
Series and
Report No.
Series P-20
No. 268
No. 265.
No. 262
No. 260
No. 258
No. 257
No. 255
No. 253
No. 243
No. 239
Series P-23
No. 50
No. 49
No. 48

No. 44
No. 41
No. 39

No. 37

No. 36
Series P-60
No. 96
No. 95
No. 94
No. 93
No. 91
No. 90

Report Nos. of previous reports of
similar title and/or subject area,
issued since 1965

Page No.
of directory

Title

25

Data formerly published by Office of Education,
see p. 33. See also P-20, No. 260, below.
263 248 226 211 205 203 186 184 147

25

235 210 193 188 171 156 154 150 141 134

25

26

241 222 206 190 167 162 148 (see also 261)
(see also 257, below)
246 233 218 200 191 173 164 153 139
(see also 266)
252 245 236 231 185 183 (see also 260, above)

26

242 225 212 198 187 170 159 144 135

26

230 228 192 174 172 143

26

25

“Nursery School and Kindergarten Enrollment:
October 1973”
“Fertility Expectations of American Women.June 1973”
“Mobility of the Population of the United
States: March 1970 to March 1973”
“Social and Economic Characteristics of
Students: October 1972”
“Household and Family Characteristics:
March 1973”
“Undergraduate Enrollment in 2-Year and
4-Year Colleges: October 1972”
“Marital Status and Living Arrangements:
March 1973”
“Voting and Registration in the Election
of November 1972”
“Educational Attainment: March 1972”

25

“Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage by
Year of Birth: June 1971”

26

229 227 220 219 217 214 209 207 201
194 182 180 169 158 138
223 (see also No. 255, above)

“Female Family Heads”
“Population of the United States, Trends
and Prospects: 1950-1990”
‘The Social and Economic Status of the
Black Population of the United States, 1973”

27

—

27
27

—

“Characteristics of American Youth: 1972”
“Preliminary National Census Survival Rates,
by Race and Sex, for 1960 to 1970”
“Differences Between Incomes of White and
Negro Families by Work Experience of Wife
and Region: 1970, 1969, and 1959”
“Social and Economic Characteristics of the
Population in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan
Areas.-1970 and 1960”
“Fertility Indicators.-1970”

28
28

28

(See P-20, No. 265, above)

“Household Money Income in 1973 and Selected
Social and Economic Characteristics of Households”
“Supplementary Report on the Low-Income
Population: 1966 to 1972”
“Characteristics of the Low-Income
Population: 1973” (advance report)”
“Money Income in 1973 of Families and
Persons in the United States” (advance report)
“Characteristics of the Low-Income Population:
1972”
“Money Income in 1972 of Families and Persons
in the United States”

29

89 84 79 72 65 62




79

48 42 38 29 26 24
(See also, P-20, Nos. 175, 168, 155, 142 and
BLS Bulletin No. 1511)
40 34 30
15

28

35

28

33 27

29

(See 91, below)

30

(See 91, below)

30

(See 90, below)

30

86 81

76 68 67 61 54 45

30

85 80 75 66 64 60 59 53 51 48 47 46

Appendix E.

Subject and Report Series Indexes
Page

Index to Subject Areas

Family relationship, family status,
characteristics of families...........
Page

Black Americans, reports devoted
primarily to blacks.......................................
Block-level d ata.,............................................
Census tract data..............................................
Children, presence of children, number
of children, characteristics o f children....

Class of worker................................................
College enrollment, characteristics of
college students, characteristics of
colleges attended (See also, School
enrollment)....................................................
Consumer durable goods (ownership of)
and consumer finance (See also,
Housing characteristics)..............................
Country (or area) of birth or origin
outside the United States...........................
County-level d a ta ............................................

Crime victimization..........................................
Disability, work disability,
characteristics of and to the disabled.......
Duration (number of weeks) of unemploy­
ment, spells (number of times) o f
unemployment..............................................
Earnings of persons and / or families...........

Educational attainment (years of school
com pleted)....................................................

Employment status, characteristics of the
employed and the unemployed.................

Ethnic groups other than Spanish
ancestry, reports devoted primarily
to these groups..............................................




Farm: farm workers, farm income,
characteristics of farms....................

9, 24, 27
16
17, 18, 44, 60

Fertility, childspacing, “ illegitimate”
births ..................................................

8-12, 14, 15, 17,
20, 26-30, 37-39,
41-45, 47, 49, 53,
54, 59, 60
8, 9, 13, 14, 26,
37, 38, 41, 59

Government workers, characteristics of
persons in group quarters (See also
Industry and Class of worker)...................
Group quarters, characteristics of
persons in group quarters...........................
Household relationship, household
status, characteristics o f households (See
also Housing characteristics)....................

12,22,25,26,33,
40, 48, 50, 57

17, 27, 31, 45
Housing characteristics
8, 9, 37, 38, 47,
48, 58-61
8, 12, 15-17, 23,
29, 32, 37, 38, 43,
53, 58
24, 32

Income of persons and/or families

Industry
8, 9, 12, 14, 33,
37, 38,41,42, 50

17,19,21,23, 34,
45
8-14, 17, 23, 24,
27,30,31,34, 37,
40-42, 45, 49, 56

Job satisfaction................
Job search methods.........
Labor force participation

Language or mother tongue..................
8-15, 17, 21-28,
30, 32-34, 37, 45,
47, 50, 53, 54,
59-61

Low-income, incidence o f low-income
status, characteristics of persons
or families with low-income
(See also, Low-income areas).........

8-15, 17, 19-30,
32, 34, 37-47, 49,
50, 53, 54, 59-61
Low-income areas
9, 38, 59, 61

80

8-14, 17, 20,
24-30, 33, 37-39,
41-43, 45, 47-51,
53-55, 59-61
14,29,31,32,42,
56
8-12, 14, 15,
27-29, 37-39, 43,
47, 53, 54, 59

13, 15,31,41,49,
50, 56
11,40, 54

817, 23, 25, 2
37, 38,41,43-45,
47, 53-55, 59, 61
911, 13-17, 24
27,31,32,38, 39,
41-45, 53-55
8-15, 17, 20,
22-30, 32, 37-45,
47,48, 50, 53,54,
59-61
8, 9, 12, 13, 15,
17, 21-24, 27, 29,
32-34, 37, 38,
41-45, 47, 50,
53-56
34
17, 19, 21, 22, 45
8-15, 17, 19-29,
32, 34, 37-47, 53,
54, 59-61
8, 9, 37, 38, 54,
58, 59, 61

8, 9, 12-15, 17,
24, 27-32, 37, 38,
41-45, 47, 49, 50,
53-55, 59, 60
11,14,17, 18,27,
39,43,45,46, 55,
56, 60

Page

Page
Marital history (age of first marriage,
number of times married, when
married, separated or divorced).....

Marital status

Mobility (recent mobility, 1965 or later:
See also, Place of birth and Country
of birth or origin)...................................

Multiple jobholding.........................
Nativity status, citizenship status,
immigration...................................
Occupation........................................

Number of earners in family or
household..................................

Place (cities and unincorporated
places) level data.....................

Place of birth (place within United
States, See also Nativity status) .....
Place o f work............................................
Public assistance, social security, and
welfare recipiency—(See also, Type
o f incom e)..............................................
Races other than black or white,
reports devoted exclusively to these
other races............................................
Reason for unemployment; job losers,
leavers, new labor force entrants,
reentrants...............................................
Relative progress in school, age-grade
relationship............................................

School enrollment, characteristics o f
students, characteristics of
schools attended................................

9, 11, 25, 26, 37,
39-41, 47, 53, 54,
59
8-14, 17, 20-22,
25-28, 30, 34,
37-42, 44, 47, 48,
53, 54, 59, 60

Spanish ancestry, reports devoted
exclusively to persons o f Spanish
ancestry............................................
Standard Metropolitan Statistical
Area (SMSA) level data................

8-14, 17, 18, 24,
25, 30, 34, 37-41,
43-45, 53, 54, 59

20

State-level data

9-11, 37, 38, 50,
53, 54, 58, 61
8 - 15, 17, 19-30,
32, 34, 37-47, 49,
50, 53, 54, 56,
59-61

Subfamilies, presence of subfamilies
in household, characteristics
o f subfamilies.....................................
Transportation to work (usual means
of transportation)..............................

9, 14, 17, 26, 27,
3 0,38,42,45,49,
54

Type of income, source of income
(See also Farm, Public assistance,
Earnings)............................................

8, 9, 12-18, 24,
32, 37-39, 43, 44,
53, 58
9-

12,
37-39, 42, 43
8, 9, 12 -14, 17,
37, 41, 43, 45

Union membership............................
Veteran status or characteristics
of veterans......................................
14,
18,
Vocational training or participation
in manpower programs................

Voting participation and voter
registration...................................
When last worked (year)...............
Work experience, weeks worked,
number o f hours usually
worked..........................................

33, 50, 51

53

19, 21, 22, 24




10, 38, 44, 47, 48
8-10, 12, 13,
15-18, 23, 24, 32,
37-39, 43, 44, 53,
58, 59
8-12, 14-18, 23,
24, 29, 34, 37-39,
45, 53, 58

9, 11, 37, 39, 54
8, 9, 14, 17, 37,
43,45

8, 9, 12, 14, 15,
17,27,29,30,37,
38, 42, 43, 54
23, 27
8, 12-14, 16, 22,
37, 41, 44
8, 9, 11, 12, 14,
17,24,34,37,38,
40, 42, 45
24, 26, 27, 48, 60
12, 41

8, 9, 11-14, 20,
21,27, 28, 30,31,
34, 37-42, 49, 53,
54

12, 14, 25, 42, 48

Page

Index to Report Series
(and to individual reports
which are not part of a
designated series)

Agricultural Economic R ep o rts....................
Black Americans: A Chartbook............. .
Black Americans: A Decade o f
Occupational Change.................................

8-15, 17, 21, 25,
26,28,33,37, 38,
40-44, 47, 48, 50,
51,5 3 ,5 4 , 57,59

Page

Block Statistics (Volume III, Census
o f Housing: 1970, reports)........ .................
Census Employment Survey reports
(See: Employment Profiles of
selected Low-Income A reas)....................
Census o f Agriculture: 1969...........................
Census o f Housing: 1970, reports................

31
7, 24

Census o f Population: 1970, reports............

24

81

3, 15

32, 56
3, 7, 15, 16, 43,
44, 52,55,64,67,
70, 71, 73
2, 7, 8-15, 17, 18,
36-46,
52-55,
58-60, 64-75

Page

Page
Census o f Population and Housing: 1970
(See: Census o f Population: 1970,
reports....................................................
Census o f Housing: 1970,
reports............................................
Census o f Population and
Housing: 1970, reports).............
Census o f Population and Housing:
1970, reports (joint population­
housing reports)...........................................
Census Tracts (Series PHC-(l),
Census o f Population and
Housing: 1970, joint
population-housing reports)...............
Characteristics o f the Population
(Volume I or Census o f Population:
1970, reports)................................................
Components of Inventory Change
(Volume IV Census o f Housing:
1970, reports)................................................
Consumer Buying Indicators
(Series P-65, Current Population
Reports) ..........................................................
Consumer Income
(Series P-60, Current
Population Reports) ....................................
County and City Data Book...........................
Current Population Reports...........................

Series P-20 (Population
Characteristics......................................

Series P-23 (Special Studies).................
Series P-25 (Population
Estimates and
Projections)...........................................
Series P-27 (Farm Population)....... .....
Series P-28 (Special C ensuses).............
Series P-60 (Consumer Income)............
Series P-65 (Consumer
Buying Indicators) ...............................
“ Detailed Characteristics”
(Chapter “ D ” of Volume I,
Census o f Population: 1970,
reports)...........................................................

4, 17, 37, 44, 55,
60, 64, 73

4, 7, 17, 37, 44,
60, 73

2, 7-9, 37, 52, 58,
65, 67, 68, 70-73

3, 16, 64, 73

4, 30

4 ,5 ,7 ,2 9 ,3 0 ,3 6 ,
49, 61,76, 79
6, 32
4, 5, 7, 24-31, 36,
46, 47-49, 58, 60,
61, 76, 79

Geographic Profile of Employment
and Unemployment......................................
Handbook o f Labor S ta tistics.......................
Housing Characteristics fo r States,
Cities, and Counties (Volume I,
Census of Housing: 1970, reports............
Manpower Research M onographs...............
Manpower Report o f the
President, 1974..............................................
Metropolitan Housing Characteristics
(Volume II, Census o f Housing:
1970, reports)................................................

4, 5, 7, 24-26, 36,
46,47,48, 58,60,
61, 76, 79
4, 5 ,7 ,2 7 ,2 8 ,4 9 ,
76, 79

4, 7, 28
4, 7, 28
4, 7, 28
4, 5 ,7 ,2 9 ,3 0 ,3 6 ,
49, 61, 76, 79

Minority Group Employment in
the Federal G overnm ent............................
Minority-Owned Business: 1969 ....................
Monthly Labor Review ..................................
Plumbing Facilities and Estimates o f
Dilapidated Housing (Volume VI,
Census o f Housing: 1970,
reports)...........................................................
Population Characteristics
(Series P-20, Current Population
R eports)..........................................................

4, 30

2, 9, 37, 53, 58,
65, 68, 71, 72

“ Detailed Housing Characteristics”
(Chapter “ B ” , Volume I,
Census o f Housing: 1970,
reports)...........................................................

3, 15, 37, 43, 67

D igest o f Educational Statistics, 1973 ........
Employment and E arnings............................

33, 51, 57
4, 5, 7, 9, 46, 76




Employment Profiles o f Selected Lowincome Areas (Series PHC-(3),
Census of Population and
Housing: 1970, joint population­
housing reports)...........................................
Equal Employment Opportunity
Report: 1970..................................................
Farm Population
(Series P-27, Current Population
Reports) ..........................................................
Findings o f the 1971 AFDC S tu d y ...............
General Demographic Trends fo r
Metropolitan Areas, 1960 to 1970
(Series PHC-(2), Census o f
Population and Housing: 1970,
joint population-housing reports).............
“ General Housing Characteristics”
(Chapter “ A ” , Volume I,
Census o f Housing: 1970,
reports)...........................................................
“ General Population Characteristics”
(Chapter “ B ” o f Volume I,
Census o f Population: 1970,
reports)..........................................................
“ General Social and Economic
Characteristics:: (Chapter “ C”
of Volume I, Census o f
Population: 1970, reports).........................

Population Estimates and Projections
(Series P-25, Current Population
Reports) ..........................................................
Racial and Ethnic Enrollment Data
from Institutions o f Higher
Education: Fall 1970 ...................................

82

4, 17, 44, 55, 64
32, 50, 56

4, 7, 28
33, 50

4, 17, 64, 73

3, 7, 15, 67

2, 7, 8, 52, 65

2 ,7 ,8 ,3 7 ,5 8 ,6 5 ,
67, 68, 70, 72
23
23, 76

3 ,7,15,43,67,73
34
24, 76

3, 7, 15, 37, 43,
67, 73
31, 49, 56
32, 49
4, 5, 19, 46, 47

3, 16, 64, 73

4, 5, 7, 24-26, 36,
46-48, 58, 60, 61,
76, 79

4, 7, 28

33 , 50, 57

Page

Page
Residential Finance
(Volume V, Census o f Housing:
1970, reports)..............................................
Rural Development Service Statistical
Bulletins........................................................
Selected Earnings and Demographic
Characteristics o f Union
Members, 1970............................................ ..
Series . . . (by series alphanumeric
designation)
HC(1)-.................................................................
HC(1)-A............................................................
HC(1)-B............................................................
HC(2)..................................................................
HC(3)................................................................
HC(4)................................................................
HC(5)................................................................
HC(6)................................................................
HC(7)..................................................................

P -20...................................................................

P -23..................................................................
P -25...................................................................
P -27..................................................................
P -28..................................................................
P -60.................................................................. ..
P-65..................................................................
p p o ) ................................................................ ..
PC(1)-A...........................................................




PC(1)-B...........................................................
PC(1)-C........................................................... ...
3 ,1 6 ,6 4
PC(1)-D.......................................................... ...
31
PC(2)- ............................................................ ...
23
P H C (l)-......................................................... ...
PHC(2)-.........................................................
PHC(3)-......................................................... ...

3,7,15,43,67,73
3, 7, 15, 67
3, 15, 37, 43, 67
3, 7, 15, 37, 43,
67, 73
3, 15
3, 16, 64, 73
3, 16, 64
3, 16, 64, 73
3, 7, 16, 44, 52,
55,64, 67, 70,71,
73
4 ,5 ,7 ,2 4 -2 6 ,3 6 ,
46-48, 58, 60, 61
76, 79
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76, 79
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4, 7, 28
4, 7, 28
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Social Security Bulletin...............................
Special Censuses
(Series P-28, Current Population
Reports) ......................................................
Special Studies
(Series P-23, Current Population
Reports) ......................................................
Special Labor Force R eports.................... ...
Statistical Abstract o f the
United S tates............................................
Subject Reports Volume II of
Census o f Population: 1970,
reports) Volume VII of
Census o f Housing: 1970, reports)....... ...

Supplementary Reports (Series PC(S1),
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65, 68, 71, 72
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60, 73
4, 17, 64, 73
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66, 67, 69-75

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