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Home> Data Dictionary for PSRC ActivitySim> Households input data

  • file location: U:\workspace\activitysim_inputs\data_raw\MAZ

Households data dictionary

  • BLDGSZ: (int) Building size
    pasted from mtc
    • 1 - mobile home;
    • 2 - one-family house detached from any other house;
    • 3 - one-family house attached to one or more houses;
    • 4 - a building with 2 apartments;
    • 5 - a building with 3 or 4 apartments;
    • 6 - a building with 5 to 0 apartments;
    • 7 - a building with 10 to 19 apartments;
    • 8 - a building with 20 to 49 apartments;
    • 9 - a building with 50 or more apartments;
    • 10 - a boat, RV, van, etc.
  • HHID
  • HHT: Household types - defined by the Census Bureau and used in ACS table B11001.
    • 0: None
    • 1: Married-couple family
    • 2: Male householder, no spouse present
    • 3: Female householder, no spouse present
    • 4: Nonfamily household, male alone
    • 5: Nonfamily household, male not alone
    • 6: Nonfamily household, female alone
    • 7: Nonfamily household, female not alone
  • NOC: number of children
  • PERSONS: hhsize - number of persons
  • PUMA5: PUMA geography from which the drawn household is from (not the PUMA where the household is placed)
  • SERIALNO: Housing/Group Quarters (GQ) Unit Serial Number (from urbansim\synthesizer\gui\data \PUMS2000_Variables.csv)? PUMA serial number?
  • TAZ
  • TENURE
  • UNITTYPE
  • VEHICL: Number of vehicles available
  • bucketBin: Used by the population synthesizer
  • h0004, h0511, h1215, h1617, h1824, h2534, h3549, h5064, h6579, h80up: Age category - number of persons in each category
  • hNOCcat: number of children category
    • 0: no children
    • 1: has children
  • hadkids
  • hadnwst: Non-working students in the household
  • hadwpst: Working students in the household
  • hinccat1, hinccat2: Household income categorization, coarse (1-4) and detailed (1-9)
    • coarse (1-4)
      • 1: -1 - 20000
      • 2: - 50000
      • 3: - 100000
      • 4: - 99999999999999
    • detailed (1-9)
      • 1: -1 - 10000
      • 2: - 20000
      • 3: - 30000
      • 4: - 40000
      • 5: - 50000
      • 6: - 60000
      • 7: - 75000
      • 8: - 100000
      • 9: - 99999999999999
  • hmultiunit: multifamily units
    • 0: single family unit
    • 1: multifamily units
  • hownrent:
    • 0: ?
    • 1: Own
    • 2: Rent
  • hsizecat: Houeshold size category (1, 2, 3, 4+)
  • htypdwel: Home dwelling type
    • 1: SFH detached
    • 2: duplex or apt
    • 3: mobile home etc)
  • hunittype: unit type from person seed (PUMS) data
  • hwrkrcat: Number of workers in family
  • income: household income
  • workers: number of workers
  • MAZ
  • is_mf: is multifamily units
  • hhagecat: Head of household age category
    • 1 - 0 to 64 years;
    • 2 - 65 and older
  • hfamily: Household family type (HHT-based)
    • 1 - non-family household;
    • 2 - family household
  • hwork_f: Household members who work full-time
  • hwork_p: Household members who work part-time
  • huniv: Household members who are university students
  • hnwork: Household members who do not work, do not attend school, and are not retired
  • hretire: Household members who are retired
  • hpresch: Pre-school age children in the household
  • hschpred: School age, pre-driving-age children in the household
  • hschdriv: School age, driving age children in the household
  • originalPUMA: PUMA geography from which the drawn household is from (not the PUMA where the hosuehold is placed)??
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