APPENDIX H.
Code Lists
GROUP QUARTERS
GROUP QUARTERS
This section contains the alphabetical code list for group quarters. The
group quarters code list was used by special place prelist enumerators to
classify each type of group quarters. Each group quarters code is a
two-digit number followed by either an "I" (institutional) or "N"
(noninstitutional) suffix. The group quarters codes listed in the second
column are for staff residing in group quarters.
Staff
GQ residents
codes GQ codes
87-N -- A. College Quarters Off Campus
(Code only if occupied by 10 or more unrelated
persons. If less than 10, these are classified
as a housing unit.)
B. Correctional Institutions
22-I 22-N 1. Federal Detention Centers: In-cluding Park
Police, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
centers, INS detention centers operated
within local jails, and State and Federal
prisons. INS detention cen-ters also include
INS Federal Alien Detention Facil-ities, INS
Service Pro-cessing Centers, and INS Contract
Detention Centers used to detain aliens under
ex-clusion or depor-tation proceedings and
aliens who require custodial departures.
21-I 21-N 2. Federal Prisons: Including crimi-nally
insane wards operated by a Federal prison
within a mental or general hospital. If ward
is not operated by a prison, code according
to para-graph H4. For detention centers
within Federal prisons, see B1 above.
23-I 23-N 3. Halfway Houses: Operated for cor-rectional
purposes, including probation and resti-
tution centers, pre-release centers, and
community-residential treatment centers.
27-I 27-N 4. Local (County/City) Jails and Other Lo-cal
Confinement Facilities: In-cluding work
farms used to hold persons awaiting trial or
serving time on relatively short sentences
(usually of a year or less), and jails run by
private businesses under contract.
95-I 95-N 5. Military Stockades, Jails
28-I 28-N 6. Police Lockups: Temporary-holding
facilities or other facilities that hold
persons only if they have not been formally
charged in court (usually detained less than 48
hours).
24-I 24-N 7. State Prisons: Prisons run by private
businesses
(under contract); including criminally insane
wards operated by a State prison within a
mental
or general hospital. If ward is not operated
by
a prison, code according to paragraph H4.
20-I 20-N 8. Other Types of Correctional Institutions:
Including private correctional facili-ties and
correc-tional facili-ties specifically for
alcohol/drug abuse. (Use only as a last resort
if no other type code ap-plies.)
91-N -- C. Crews of Civilian Vessels
D. Dormitories
92-N -- 1. Agriculture Workers' Dormitories on Farms:
Including migratory farm work-ers' camps on
farms, bunkhouses for ranch hands, and other
dormitories on farms including those on "tree
farms."
87-N -- 2. College Student
juveniles, see paragraph F2.
E. Elderly: Skilled nursing facilities, intermediate
care facilities, long-term care rooms in wards or
buildings on the grounds of hospitals, nursing,
convalescent, and rest homes including soldiers',
sailors', veterans', and fraternal or reli-gious
homes for the aged, with or without nursing care.
NOTE: Do not include dormitories for nurses' and
interns'; see paragraph D3.
1. Public Ownership
62-I 62-N a. Federal ownership: Including Veter-ans'
Administration, domiciliary homes, and U.S.
Naval homes.
63-I 63-N b. State ownership
64-I 64-N c. County or city ownership
65-I 65-N d. Don't know if Federal, State, or
county-city
ownership (Use only as a last resort if no
other type code applies.)
2. Private Ownership
66-I 66-N a. Private not-for-profit
67-I 67-N b. Private for profit
60-I 60-N c. Don't know if for profit or not (Use only
as
a last resort if no other type code applies.)
61-I 61-N 3. Don't Know if Federal, State, Local, or Private
Ownership (Use only as a last resort if no
other
type code ap-plies.)
F. Emergency Shelter/Street Night Enumeration
("S-NIGHT")
82-N -- 1. Shelters for the Homeless with Sleep-ing
Facilities: Including emergency housing, mis-
sions and flop-houses, Salva-tion Army
shelters,
hotels and motels charging $12 or less a night
(excluding taxes), hotels and motels used
entirely for home-less persons, the group of
rooms in hotels and motels used partially for
the
homeless, and similar places known to have
persons with no usual home elsewhere who stay
overnight.
83-N -- 2. Runaway, Neglected, and Homeless Children:
Including emergency shel-ters/group homes which
provide temporary sleeping facilities for
juveniles.
3. Street Enumeration Predesignated Sites
84-N -- a. Nonstructure locations, other than
commerce places: Including street corners,
parks, bridges, abandoned and boarded-up
build-ings, noncommercial campsites ("tent
temporary residents (military or
civilian)
86-N -- c. Dormitories for nurses and interns in
general
military hospitals
54-I 86-N d. Hospitals or wards for chronically ill
95-I 95-N e. Stockades and jails
98-N -- 2. Military Ships
90-N -- L. Natural Disaster: Including those tem-porarily
displaced by a natural disaster, such as "Hurricane
Hugo."
89-N -- M. Religious Group Quarters: Including con-vents,
monaster-ies, and recto-ries. Members of religious
orders who live in a dormitory at a hospital or
college were classified according to the type of
place where they live, such as 86-N if at a general
hospital, or 87-N if at a college. (Code only if
occupied by 10 or more un-related persons. If less
than 10, these are classi-fied as a housing unit.)
80-N -- N. Rooming and Boarding Houses
(Code only if occupied by 10 or more unre-lated
persons. If less than 10, these are classi-fied as
a
housing unit.)
O. Schools for the Handicapped: See paragraphs H5 and
H6.
P. Shelter/Street Night Enumeration ("S-Night"): See
paragraph F.
94-N -- Q. Other Non-household Living Situations: Including
places not covered by other GQ codes shown herein,
such as commercial or public camp-grounds,
campgrounds at racetracks, fairs, and carnivals,
hostels, and similar transient sites. (Ask usual
home else-where in these places. In-clude as
living
there only persons who have no usual home elsewhere.)
R. Staff of Institutions: Including staff personnel
residing in group quarters. Code according to the
appropri-ate type of group quarters shown under the
col-umn "Staff residents GQ codes." Staff
residents are coded with an "N" suffix.
Note: Do not assign GQ codes to staff resi-dents in
group quar-ters where a "--" is shown.