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Description & Citation--Study No. 9835

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9835
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09835
 
Title:Contiguous County File, 1991: [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. CONTIGUOUS COUNTY FILE, 1991: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter- university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1992. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09835
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This file provides information on the locational relationship between counties (and statistically equivalent entities) in the United States. For purposes of this study, contiguous counties included those that were physically adjacent, those that were not physically adjacent but were connected by a major road, and those that were not physically adjacent but had significant economic ties. The file includes FIPS state and county codes, county names, and the type of relationship between contiguous counties.
 
Subject Term(s):counties, economics, FIPS codes, geography
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1991
 
Universe:Counties and statistically equivalent entities as recorded by the Census Bureau as of December 31, 1991.
 
Data Type:geographic reference data
 

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:1992-10-31
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Contiguous County File, 1991: [United States]
 

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