1970 Census of Population: Characteristics of the population. Volume 1

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U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1972
 

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Page 14-456 - comprises all persons living in urbanized areas and in places of 2,500 inhabitants or more outside urbanized areas. More specifically, the urban population consists of all persons living in (a) places of 2,500 inhabitants or more incorporated as cities, villages, boroughs (except in Alaska), and towns (except in the New England States, New York,
Page 14-460 - contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000. In addition to the county, or counties, containing such a city or cities, contiguous counties are included in an SMSA if, according to certain criteria, they are socially and economically integrated with the central city. In
Page 14-475 - Unpaid family workers.—Persons who worked without pay on a farm or in a business operated by a person to whom they are related by blood or marriage. These are usually the children or the wife of the owner of a business or farm. About one-half of the unpaid family workers are farm laborers.
Page 14-457 - farms, and the rural-nonfarm population, which comprises the remaining rural population. As in the 1960 census, the farm population consists of persons living on places of 10 or more acres from which sales of farm products amounted to $50 or more in the preceding calendar year or on places of fewer than 10 acres
Page 14-97 - Food, bakery, and dairy stores Eating and drinking places General merchandise retailing Motor vehicles retailing and service stations Other retail trade Banking and credit agencies Insurance, real estate, and other finance Business services Repair services Private households Other personal services Entertainment and recreation services Hospitals Health services, except hospitals Elementary and secondary schools and colleges Government
Page 14-456 - as cities, villages, boroughs (except in Alaska), and towns (except in the New England States, New York, and Wisconsin), but excluding those persons living in the rural portions of extended cities; (b) unincorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more; and (c) other territory, incorporated or unincorporated, included in urbanized areas. The population not classified as urban constitutes the rural population.
Page 14-456 - New England States, New York, and Wisconsin), but excluding those persons living in the rural portions of extended cities; (b) unincorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants or more; and (c) other territory, incorporated or unincorporated, included in urbanized areas. The population not classified as urban constitutes the rural population.
Page 14-477 - Food and kindred products Other nondurable goods Tobacco manufactures Textile mill products Apparel and other fabricated textile products Paper and allied products Printing, publishing, and allied industries Chemicals and allied products Petroleum and coal products Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products Leather and leather products Nondurable goods—allocated
Page 14-128 - and drinking places General merchandise retailing Motor vehicles retailing and service stations Other retail trade banking and credit agencies Insurance, real estate, and other finance Business services Repair services Private households Other personal services Entertainment and recreation services Hospitals Health services, except hospitals Elementary and secondary schools and colleges
Page 14-460 - STANDARD CONSOLIDATED AREAS In view of the special importance of the metropolitan complexes around New York and Chicago, the Nation's two largest cities, several contiguous SMSA's and additional counties that do not appear to meet the formal integration criteria but do have strong interrelationships of other kinds have been combined into the New YorkNortheastern New Jersey and the Chicago-Northwestern Indiana

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