|Data Source:||U.S. Census Bureau|
Universe: Occupied housing units
|H17A.||Persons Per Occupied Housing Unit|
|Universe: Occupied housing units|
|Excerpt from:||Social Explorer, U.S. Census Bureau; Census of Population and Housing, 1990: Summary Tape File 1 on CD-ROM [machine-readable data files] / prepared by the Bureau of the Census. Washington: The Bureau [producer and distributor], 1991.|
|Summary Tape File 1 -> Appendix B. Subject Characteristics -> Housing Characteristics -> Living Quarters -> Occupied Housing Units|
A housing unit is classified as occupied if it is the usual place of residence of the person or group of persons living in it at the time of enumeration, or if the occupants are only temporarily absent; that is, away on vacation. If all the persons staying in the unit at the time of the census have their usual place of residence elsewhere, the unit is classified as vacant. A household includes all the persons who occupy a housing unit as their usual place of residence. By definition, the count of occupied housing units for 100-percent tabulations is the same as the count of households or householders.