BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

                      C. L. Kincannon, Deputy Director
                     Roland H. Moore, Associate Director
                            for Field Operations
                    Charles D. Jones, Associate Director
                            for Decennial Census

                           DATA USER SERVICES DIVISION

                      Marshall L. Turner, Jr., Acting Chief
                     Marie G. Argana, Assistant Division Chief
                    Alfonso E. Mirabal, Assistant Division Chief

                               GEOGRAPHY DIVISION

                             Robert W. Marx, Chief
                 Robert A. LaMacchia, Assistant Division Chief
                                 for Planning

                                ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This technical documentation was prepared in the Data User Services 
Division by the Data Access and Use Staff, James P. Curry, Chief.  Larry W.
Carbaugh, Chief of the State and Regional Programs Staff, Barbara Harris of
the State and Regional Programs Staff, and Barbara Aldrich of the Data
Access and Use Staff were key staff members in preparing this
documentation.  Joann Sutton provided word processing support.  Programming
for this TIGER/Line file was done in the TIGER System Staff of the
Geography Division by Sonya Desha, Joe Baumgartner, Barbara Frey, Peter
Miller, and Benjamin Eng under the guidance of Beverly Davis, Acting Chief.
The Geographic Base Development Branch of the Geography Division, Charles
Dingman, Chief and R. B. Birdsong, Section Chief, provided assistance in
the development of the documentation and prepared the specifications for
the file.


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The file should be cited as follows:

     TIGER/Line Census Files, 1990 [machine-readable data files] /
     prepared by the Bureau of the Census.  Washington:  The Bureau
     [producer and distributor], 1991.

The technical documentation should be cited as follows:

     TIGER/Line Census Files, 1990 Technical Documentation / prepared 
     by the Bureau of the Census.  Washington:  The Bureau, 1991.

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For additional information concerning the subject matter of the file, 
contact Larry Carbaugh, Data User Services Division, Bureau of the Census,
Washington, DC  20233.  Phone:  (301) 763-1580.

For additional information concerning the tape, contact Data User Services
Division, Customer Services (Order Desk), Bureau of the Census, Washington,
DC 20233.  Phone:  (301) 763-4100.

For additional information concerning the technical documentation, contact
Data User Services Division, TIGER Staff, Bureau of the Census, Washington,
DC  20233.  Phone:  (301) 763-1580.









































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