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Description

METRO indicates whether the household was located within a metropolitan area in the United States. For households within metropolitan areas, METRO also indicates whether the housing unit was within a metropolitan area's central city (or cities), or within the remainder of the metropolitan area. 

Comparability

METRO is only available for the United States datasets (and is not available for the 1880 complete count dataset).

Universe

Availability

• United States: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910