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Description & Citation--Study No. 13569

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:13569
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR13569
 
Title:Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States]: County-to-County Migration Flow Files
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census
 
Series:Census of Population and Housing, 2000 [United States] Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 2000 [UNITED STATES]: COUNTY-TO-COUNTY MIGRATION FLOW FILES [Computer file]. ICPSR13569-v1. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-03-07. doi:10.3886/ICPSR13569
 

Scope of Study

Summary:These migration data come from the Census 2000 long-form questions about residence in 1995 and provide the number of people who moved between counties. There are two files, one for inflows from every county in the United States and another re-sorted by outflows to every county. Each file contains data for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, sorted by FIPS state and county codes.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, place of residence, population migration
 
Geographic Coverage:Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
 
Time Period:2000
 
Date(s) of Collection:2000
 
Universe:All persons living in housing units in the United States in 2000.
 
Data Type:census/enumeration data
 
Data Collection Notes:(1) For each county in the state, the number of migrants who moved to that county from another county is listed. These files contain records for FIPS state code in 2000, FIPS county code in 2000, county and state name in 2000 (current residence), FIPS state code in 1995, FIPS county code in 1995, county and state name in 1995 (previous residence), and the number of migrants who moved between those two counties (inflow). (2) For each county in the state, the number of migrants who moved away from that county to another county is listed. These files contain records for FIPS state code in 1995, FIPS county code in 1995, county and state name in 1995 (previous residence), FIPS state code in 2000, FIPS county code in 2000, county and state name in 2000 (current residence), and the number of migrants who moved between those two counties (outflow). (3) The data for Puerto Rico are not included in this version of the collection.
 

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:self-enumerated questionnaire
 

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:2007-03-07
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: County Inflow
  • DS2: County Outflow
 

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