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    • Characteristics of Rural Veterans: 2010

    Metadata Updated: September 10, 2025

    This report uses data from the 2010 American Community Survey to compare the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Veterans and non-Veterans who live in rural areas. It also compares rural and urban Veterans. The additional tables provided here show rural Veterans by state for the total population and by period of service.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 10, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from VA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 10, 2025
    Publisher Department of Veterans Affairs
    Maintainer
    Identifier VA-OEI-OEI-012
    Data First Published 2017-07-26
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2020-05-15
    Rights Public
    Category Rural, Urban
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 029:40
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.data.va.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/data_documentation/pums/DataDict/PUMSDataDict10.pdf
    Data Dictionary Type application/pdf
    Harvest Object Id fa14aadf-711c-462b-a960-613c1979fe13
    Harvest Source Id fcd1f625-1c2e-4663-95cf-1b0eb053cce1
    Harvest Source Title VA JSON
    Homepage URL https://www.va.gov/vetdata/Report.asp
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 029:086
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7d144b24ef717c9afcb256db47bad62413e7775a6bbbdeeb77cf88c2b97c880b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2010-01-01T05:00:00Z/2010-12-31T05:00:00Z

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