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: Including 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 centers also include
INS Federal Alien Detention Facilities, INS
Service Processing Centers, and INS Contract
Detention Centers used to detain aliens under
exclusion or deportation proceedings and
aliens who require custodial departures.
21-I 21-N 2. Federal Prisons: Including criminally
insane wards operated by a Federal prison
within a mental or general hospital. If ward
is not operated by a prison, code according
to paragraph H4. For detention centers
within Federal prisons, see B1 above.
23-I 23-N 3. Halfway Houses: Operated for correctional
purposes, including probation and resti
tution centers, prerelease centers, and
community-residential treatment centers.
27-I 27-N 4. Local (County/City) Jails and Other Local
Confinement Facilities: Including 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 facilities and
correctional facilities specifically for
alcohol/drug abuse. (Use only as a last resort
if no other type code applies.)
91-N -- C. Crews of Civilian Vessels
D. Dormitories
92-N -- 1. Agriculture Workers' Dormitories on Farms:
Including migratory farm workers' camps on
farms, bunkhouses for ranch hands, and other
dormitories on farms including those on "tree
farms."
87-N -- 2. College Student Dormitories, and Fraternity and
Sorority Houses (on campus): Including
residential quarters for those in religious
orders.
86-N -- 3. Dormitories for Nurses and Interns in General and
Military Hospitals
97-N -- 4. Military Quarters on Base: Including barracks,
bachelor officers quarters, unaccompanied
officer personnel housing, unaccompanied
enlisted personnel housing, and similar
noninstitutional group living quarters for
military personnel.
93-N -- 5. Other Workers' Dormitories: Including logging
camps, construction workers' camps, firehouse
dormitories, job-training camps, energy enclave
(Alaska only), Alaskan pipeline camps, nonfarm
migratory workers' camps, such as workers who
lay oil and gas pipelines.
6. Runaway, Neglected, and Homeless Children:
Including emergency shelters/group homes which
provide temporary sleeping facilities for
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 religious
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 Veterans'
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 applies.)
F. Emergency Shelter/Street Night Enumeration
("S-NIGHT")
82-N -- 1. Shelters for the Homeless with Sleeping
Facilities: Including emergency housing,mis-
sions and flophouses, Salvation Army shelters,
hotels and motels charging $12 or less a night
(excluding taxes), hotels and motels used
entirely for homeless 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 shelters/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
buildings, noncommercial campsites ("tent
cities"), and similar sites.
85-N -- b. Commerce places: Including railroad
stations, airports, bus depots, subway
stations, all-night movie theaters, all-night
restaurants, emergency hospital waiting
rooms, and other similar predesignated
sites.
75-N -- 4. Shelters for Abused Women (Shelters against
domestic violence)
G. Group Homes: Including those providing community-
based care and supportive services such as halfway
houses for the groups listed below. (Code only if
occupied by 10 or more unrelated persons. Ifless
than 10, these are classified as a housing unit.)
76-N -- 1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse: Including group homes,
detoxification centers, quarterway houses such
as residential treatment facilities that work
closely with an accredited hospital, halfway
houses, recovery homes for ambulatory, and
mentally competent recovering alcoholics who may
be re-entering the work force. (Ask usual home
elsewhere in these places. Include as living
there only persons who have no usual home else-
where.)
29-N -- 2. Maternity (Homes for unwed mothers) (Ask usual
home elsewhere in these places. Include as
living there only persons who have no usual home
elsewhere.)
3. Mentally Ill
16-N -- a. Federal
17-N -- b. State
18-N -- c. Private
19-N -- d. Don't know if public/private ownership (Use
only as a last resort if no other type code
applies.)
4. Mentally Retarded
56-N -- a. Federal
57-N -- b. State
58-N -- c. Private
59-N -- d. Don't know if public/private ownership (Use
only as a last resort if no other type code
applies.)
5. Physically Handicapped
72-N -- a. Public ownership
73-N -- b. Private ownership
74-N -- c. Don't know if public/private ownership (Use
only as a last resort if no other type code
applies.)
6. Runaway, Neglected, and Homeless Children:
Including emergency shelters/group homes which
provide temporary sleeping facilities for
juveniles, see paragraph F2.
79-N -- 7. Other Group Homes: Including communes, foster
care homes and job corps centers with 10 or more
unrelated children. Do not include emergency
housing for persons with no other home. See
paragraph F1. (Use only as a last resort if no
other type code applies.)
H. Hospitals/Schools for the Handicapped
86-N -- 1. Dormitories for Nurses and Interns in General and
Military Hospitals
70-I 70-N 2. Drug/Alcohol Abuse: Including hospitals, and
hospital wards in psychiatric and general
hospitals. These facilities/wards are in a
medical setting equipped and designed for the
diagnosis and treatment of medical or
psychiatric illnesses associated with alcohol or
drug abuse. Patients receive supervised
medical/nursing care from a formally trained
staff. For group homes, see paragraph G.
3. Hospitals for Chronically Ill
54-I 86-N a. Military hospitals or wards for chronically
ill
55-I 86-N b. Other hospitals or wards for chronically
ill: Including tuberculosis hospitals or
wards, wards in general and Veterans'
Administration hospitals for the chronically
ill, neurological wards, hospices; wards for
patients with Hansen's Disease (leprosy) and
other incurable diseases; and other unspeci-
fied wards for the chronically ill. Do not
include mental or alcohol/drug abuse hospi-
tals or wards.
4. Mentally Ill (Psychiatric): Hospitals or
wards, including wards for the criminally
insane not operated by a prison and
psychiatric wards of general hospitals and
veterans' hospitals. This is a medical set
ting designed for the treatment of mental
illness. Patients receive supervised and
medical/nursing care from a formally trained
staff. Code wards for the mentally retarded
according to paragraph H5. Do not include
hospitals or wards for alcohol/drug abuse;
see paragraph H2.
46-I 46-N a. Federal ownership
47-I 47-N b. State or local ownership
48-I 48-N c. Private ownership
45-I 45-N d. Don't know if Federal, State, local, or
private ownership (Use only as a last
resort if no other type code applies.)
5. Mentally Retarded: Schools, hospitals, wards,
including wards in hospitals for the mentally
ill, and intermediate care facilities for the
mentally retarded. This is in a suitably-
equipped setting and with supervised and
medical/nursing care from a formally trained
staff.
41-I 41-N a. Federal ownership
43-I 43-N b. State or local ownership
42-I 42-N c. Private ownership
40-I 40-N d. Don't know if Federal, State, local, or
private ownership (Use only as a last resort
if no other type code applies.)
6. Physically Handicapped: Including schools,
hospitals, or wards in a suitably-equipped
medical setting and designed primarily for the
physically handicapped who receive supervised
care and medical/nursing care from a formally
trained staff.
a. Institutions for the deaf
38-I 38-N (1) Public ownership
39-I 39-N (2) Private ownership
37-I 37-N (3) Don't know if public/private ownership
(Use only as a last resort ifno other
type code applies.)
b. Institutions for the blind
35-I 35-N (1) Public ownership
36-I 36-N (2) Private ownership
34-I 34-N (3) Don't know if public/private ownership
(Use only as a last resort if no other
type code applies.)
c. Orthopedic wards and institutions for
physically handicapped: Including accident
victims, and persons with polio, cerebral
palsy, and muscular dystrophy.
32-I 32-N (1) Public ownership
33-I 33-N (2) Private ownership
31-I 31-N (3) Don't know if public/private ownership
(Use only as a last resort if no other
type code applies.)
53-I 86-N 7. Wards in General and Military Hospitals for
Patients Who Have No Usual Home Elsewhere:
Including maternity, neonatal, pediatric
(including wards for boarder babies), military,
surgical wards, and other purpose wards of
hospitals and wards for infectious diseases.
Note: Do not include long-term care rooms for
the elderly in wards or buildings on the grounds
of hospitals, see paragraph E.
I. Hotels/Motels: "S-Night" locations, see para-
graph F.
J. Juvenile Institutions: Including homes, schools, and
hospitals.
1. Long-Term Care (length of stay usually more than
30 days)
a. Neglected, abused, and dependent children:
Including orphanages, homes, or residential
care.
03-I 03-N (1) Public ownership
04-I 04-N (2) Private ownership
02-I 02-N (3) Don't know if public/private ownership
(Use only as a last resort if no other
type code applies.)
05-I 05-N b. Emotionally disturbed children: Including
residential treatment centers (psychiatric
care provided).
c. Delinquent children: Placed by court,
parents, or social service agency, in
residential training school or home,
including industrial schools, camps, or
farms.
12-I 12-N (1) Public ownership: Committed by courts.
15-I 15-N (2) Private ownership: Some are committed
by courts, others are referred by parents
or social service agencies because
of delinquent behavior.
11-I 11-N (3) Don't know if public/private ownership
(Use only as a last resort if no other
type code applies.)
2. Short-term (length of stay usually 30 days or
less)
10-I 10-N a. Delinquent children: Including those
receiving temporary care in detention or
diagnostic centers pending court disposition
of case.
b. Runaway, neglected, and homeless children:
Including emergency shelters/group homes
which provide temporary sleeping facilities
for juveniles, see paragraph F2.
01-I 01-N 3. Don't Know Type of Juvenile Institution:
Including homes, schools, hospitals, or wards
for children. (Use only as a last resort if no
other type code applies.)
K. Military Quarters
1. On Base
97-N -- a. Barracks, bachelor officers quarters,
unaccompanied officer personnel housing, un-
accompanied enlisted personnel housing, and
similar noninstitutional group living quarters
for military personnel
96-N -- b. Transient quarters (noninstitutional) for
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 temporarily
displaced by a natural disaster, such as "Hurricane
Hugo."
89-N -- M. Religious Group Quarters: Including convents,
monasteries, and rectories. 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 unrelated persons. If less
than 10, these are classified as a housing unit.)
80-N -- N. Rooming and Boarding Houses
(Code only if occupied by 10 or more unrelated
persons. If less than 10, these are classified 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 Nonhousehold Living Situations: Including
places not covered by other GQ codes shown herein,
such as commercial or public campgrounds,
campgrounds at racetracks, fairs, and carnivals,
hostels, and similar transient sites. (Ask usual
home elsewhere in these places. Include 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
appropriate type of group quarters shown under the
column "Staff residents GQ codes." Staff
residents are coded with an "N" suffix.
Note: Do not assign GQ codes to staff residents in
group quarters where a "--" is shown.
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