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Description & Citation--Study No. 6425

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6425
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06425
 
Title:103rd Congressional District Geographic Entity File, 1990: [United States]
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 103RD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT GEOGRAPHIC ENTITY FILE, 1990: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06425
 

Scope of Study

Summary:These data describe the geographic relationships of the 103rd congressional districts to selected governmental and statistical geographic entities for the entire United States, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Each record represents a census geographic tabulation unit (GTUB), a unique combination of geographic codes expressing specific geographic relationships. This file provides the following information: state, congressional district, county and county subdivision, place, American Indian/Alaska Native area, urbanized area, urban/rural descriptor, and Metropolitan Statistical Area/Primary Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA/PMSA).
 
Time Period:1990
 
Date(s) of Collection:1990
 
Universe:All congressional districts as identified in the 1990 Decennial Census.
 
Data Type:administrative records data
 
Data Collection Notes:A list of all 1990 Census blocks split by a 103rd congressional district boundary and the congressional district to which they were assigned is available in Appendix A of the documentation.
 

Methodology

Data Source:equivalency files and listings submitted by the appropriate agency or official within each state, usually from the Secretary of State's Office
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1995-03-16
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 103rd Congressional District Geographic Entity File, 1990: [United States]
 

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