Census of population and housing, 1970 [United States]

Description

This summary statistics file was compiled by the Bureau of the Census. The data are a complete or 100% count of all persons in group quarters by sex and single years of age up to 74 with a category for 75 and over as well as a total. The distribution is repeated for 18 race/Hispanic groups. Group quarters population includes persons in institutional group quarters such as homes, schools, hospitals, or wards for the physically and mentally handicapped, hospitals or wards for mental, tubercular, or chronically ill patients, homes for unwed mothers, nursing, convalescent, and rest homes for the aged and dependent, orphanages, and correctional institutions. Noninstitutional group quarters include rooming and boarding houses, general hospitals, including nurses' and interns' dormitories, college student dormitories, religious group quarters, and similar housing. Data are available for all counties and independent cities.