Variable Definitions for the downloaded Hispanic population files

These spreadsheets include a very large number of variables. However, their variable names (listed in the first row) are quite easy to interpret, because they follow a simple set of rules.

The following abbreviations apply generally:

MSAPMSA=Census metro code

STATE=Census state code

Census year:

•90=1990

•00=2000

Level of Geography:

•ST=State

•MT=Full metropolitan area

•CC=Central city

•SB=Suburbs

The Hispanic national origin variables include an identifier for whether the data are counts from the Hispanic question as reported by the census or adjusted counts estimated by the Mumford Center:

•M=Mumford Center

•C=Census Hispanic question

Codes for race, ethnicity, and Hispanic national origins are as follows:

NHW=Non-Hispanic White

NHB=Non-Hispanic Black

HSP=Hispanic

ASN=Asian

•MX=Mexico

•PR=Puerto Rico

•CB=Cuba

•DM=Dominican Republic

•CM=Central American (total of all Central American origins)

•CR=Costa Rica

•GM=Guatemala

•HN=Honduras

•NC=Nicaragua

•PA=Panama

•SL=El Salvador

•OC=Other Central America (not specified)

•SM=South American (total of all South American origins)

•AG=Argentina

•BL=Bolivia

•CI=Chile

•CL=Columbia

•EQ=Ecuador

•PG=Paraguay

•PE=Peru

•UG=Uruguay

•VE=Venezuela

•OS=Other South American (not specified)

•OH=Other Hispanic (not specified)

EXAMPLES:

1. For example, a variable named MX_M00MT would be interpreted as follows:

MX=Mexican

M=Mumford Center estimate

00=Census year 2000

MT=Full metro area

Therefore, this variable represents the Mumford Center's estimate of the number of Mexicans living in a metro area in 2000.

2. Similarly, DM_C90ST would be the Census estimate for the number of Dominicans living in a state in 1990.