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Description & Citation--Study No. 7736

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7736
 
Title:County and City Data Book [United States] Consolidated File: County Data, 1947-1977
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Series:County and City Data Book [United States] Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: COUNTY DATA, 1947-1977 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-04-01.
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study is a compendium of data for all counties in the United States in the period 1944-1977. The data provide diverse information ranging from local government activities to population estimates and characteristics to housing unit descriptors. Included is information on local government revenues, property taxes, capital outlay, and debts, and expenditures on education, highways, public welfare, health and hospitals, and police, as well as information on births, deaths, schooling, labor force, employment, family income, family characteristics, electoral votes, and housing characteristics. Additional variables provide information on manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, banking, mineral industries, farm population, agriculture, crime, and weather. See also the related data collection, COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: CITY DATA, 1944-1977 (ICPSR 7735).
 
Subject Term(s):agriculture, banking, census data, counties, crime, demographic characteristics, economic conditions, education expenditures, employment, government expenditures, government revenues, household composition, human services, income, industrial production, labor force, manufacturing industry, municipal services, population characteristics, states (USA), taxes, trade, voting behavior
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1947 - 1977
 
Universe:Individual states, the District of Columbia, and counties or county equivalent for which data were published in the County and City Data Books, in the entire United States in the period 1947-1977.
 
Data Type:administrative records data, and aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. (2) In this hierarchical file, the data are ordered by county within state. All of the data for one area is presented in a group of five records for the total sample of 3,236 record groups.
 

Methodology

Data Source:United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOKS. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1947-1977.
 

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 LRECL, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-06-20
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2008-04-01.
 
  2008-04-01 - SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files have been added to this data collection.
 

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