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Description & Citation--Study No. 9251

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9251
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09251
 
Title:County and City Data Book [United States], 1988
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Series:County and City Data Book [United States] Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. County and City Data Book [United States], 1988 [Computer file]. ICPSR09251-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-05-26. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09251
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This collection presents in computer-readable form the data items used to produce the corresponding printed volume of the COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1988. Included is a broad range of statistical information, made available by federal agencies and national associations, for counties, cities, and places. Information also is provided for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and for the United States as a whole. The dataset is comprised of seven files: a county file, a city file, and a place file, with footnote files and data dictionaries for both the county and the city files. The county data file contains information on areas such as age, agriculture, banking, construction, crime, education, federal expenditures, personal income, population, and vital statistics. The city data file includes variables such as city government, climate, crime, housing, labor force and employment, manufactures, retail trade, and service industries. Included in the place data file are items on population and money income.
 
Subject Term(s):agriculture, banking, census data, cities, counties, crime, demographic characteristics, economic conditions, education expenditures, employment, housing, government expenditures, government revenues, household composition, human services, income, industrial production, labor force, manufacturing industry, municipal services, population characteristics, states (USA), taxes, trade, vital statistics, voting behavior
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Universe:The universe varies from item to item within the files, e.g., all persons, all housing units, all local governments, etc.
 
Data Type:aggregate data
 
Data Collection Notes:Users are advised that the codebook that the Census Bureau has issued for use with this dataset is a preliminary one and does not include codes and definitions for states, counties, and cities. The codes and definitions may be listed off the tape or users may refer to other sources such as the printed version of the COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK, 1988. For each case in the Counties Data file, there are two 1,239-character records.
 

Methodology

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:1989-09-26
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2009-05-26.
 
  2009-05-26 - SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.
 
  2006-03-30 - File CB9251.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Counties Data
  • DS2: Counties Data Dictionary
  • DS3: Counties Footnotes
  • DS4: Cities Data
  • DS5: Cities Data Dictionary
  • DS6: Cities Footnotes
  • DS7: Places Data
 

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