# Identifying households in MN Legislative Districts
**URL:** https://forum.ipums.org/t/identifying-households-in-mn-legislative-districts/5822
**Category:** USA
**Created:** [April 18, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/identifying-households-in-mn-legislative-districts/5822 "2024-04-18T21:16:19Z")
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### Author:  [@LynnB1](https://forum.ipums.org/u/LynnB1)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/identifying-households-in-mn-legislative-districts/5822/1 "2024-04-18T21:16:19Z")
Using the latest 5-year IPUMS-USA, I want to identify the number of households in the Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area’s 79 MN legislative districts. I have a dataset of townhome, condominium, and other homeowner association (HOA) parcels. I am considering these parcels to represent households. I want to calculate the percentage of all households in each legislative district that are in an HOA.
What IPUMS USA fields should I use to derive the denominator?
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Ivan\_Strahof](https://forum.ipums.org/u/Ivan_Strahof)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.ipums.org/t/identifying-households-in-mn-legislative-districts/5822/2 "2024-04-23T14:24:28Z")
In order to protect respondent confidentiality, the ACS Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) that [IPUMS USA](https://usa.ipums.org/usa/index.shtml) provides access to reports household location on the Public Use Microdata ([PUMA](https://usa.ipums.org/usa-action/variables/PUMA)) level. PUMAs are geographic units created by the Census Bureau that include at least 100,000 inhabitants.
For data on more granular geographies (such as census tracts, counties, and legislative districts), [IPUMS NHGIS](https://www.nhgis.org/) provides access to tables with summary statistics aggregated to these geographies by the Census Bureau. We recommend that new users review the [detailed FAQ](https://www.nhgis.org/frequently-asked-questions-faq) and the accompanying [User Guide](https://www.nhgis.org/user-guide) (especially the short video tutorials) to familiarize themselves with the website and how to most effectively use the [Data Finder tool](https://data2.nhgis.org/main).
One option is to obtain this data from the 2020 Census Redistricting Summary File using the Finder tool by filtering to _2020_ as your year, including _Total Housing Units_ as your topics filter, and _State Legislative District (Lower Chamber) (by State)_ as your geographic filter. Table _H1 Occupancy Status_ will provide you with the total number of occupied and vacant housing units by legislative district. Another option is to select the _2018-2022 5-year range_ for your years filter (instead of _2020_) and select tables which report data from the 2018-2022 5-year ACS file.