Census of Population and Housing 1970, [San Diego, California]: Summary Statistic File 4A: Population

Tape File 4A: Housing. Housing characteristics include housing value, number of housing units in structure, number of rooms in housing unit, year structure was built, occupancy/vacancy status, tenure, rent, type of heating fuel, source of water, and presence of an air conditioner and other home appliances. Counts are available for the total, Negro, and Spanish American populations.

Negros are defined as a racial category by the Census Bureau. In California, Spanish Americans include "Persons of Spanish language or Spanish surname". The California state 4A data file was processed with PERL and SPSS by the Social Science Data Collection (SSDC) staff of the University of California, San Diego from Census Bureau data processed by DUALabs, Inc. and archived at the Odum Institute.

PERL script concatenated record type codes and output six data files that match the record types described in the codebook: tables 001-040, tables 041-107, tables 108-119, tables 120-130, tables 131-152 and Spanish American tables 153-200. These si x files were subsequently processed with SPSS to extract tracts for San Diego County and recompute some aggregate housing value data content. Users may browse a list of data variables (tables and cells) included in these six data files.

The Census Bureau produced printed reports for 1970

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Tape File 4A. The UCSD Geisel Library maintains printed reports and census tract maps in 1970 Census of Population and Housing Census Tracts, San Diego, Calif. (SSH Docs US Stacks C 3.223/11:970/188).