Households under 1970 definition?

USA
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I’m working with the 2023 1-year ACS, and finding a number of cases where HHTYPE is NA but GQTYPE is 0. Suggesting these are people in households, but they have no assigned HHTYPE code. They have valid HHWT values, and all have GQ=1, meaning “Households under 1970 definition” and CBHHTYPE in(3,4) so these are all people in cohabiting households.

Does anyone have any insight as to how these people should be interpreted?

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Am I correctly understanding that you are seeing cases in the 2023 1-year ACS sample with HHTYPE = 0, GQTYPE = 0, and GQ = 1?

I reviewed the data, but was unable to find these cases. There are instances where two of these three conditions match:

  • HHTYPE = 0 & GQTYPE = 0 corresponds to vacant units (see VACANCY), but these household records all have GQ = 0 (“Vacant Unit”).
  • GQTYPE = 0 & GQ = 1 includes households with up to four individuals unrelated to the household reference person (this is the maximum threshold for households in 1970). However, I was unable to find any records in this group with HHTYPE = 0.

It appears that you requested this extract using the API. If so, could share your extract definition so that I can take a closer look at these cases?

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Thanks for the clarification, maybe I’m just going crazy, I can’t seem to replicate either! Feel free to delete thread, looks like I can’t?