10.3886/ICPSR07697.v1 United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1984 agriculture banking census data cities counties crime debt demographic characteristics economic conditions education expenditures employment family relationships government expenditures government revenues household composition housing housing units human services income industrial production labor force manufacturing industry municipal services population characteristics population estimates states (USA) taxes trade vital statistics voting behavior weather 1984-06-20 1992-02-16 administrative records data; aggregate data; medical records; survey data 7697 1 This study is a compendium of data presented for regions, census divisions, states, counties, cities, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs), and standard federal administrative regions in the United States in 1977. The data provide diverse information ranging from government activities to population estimates and characteristics to housing unit descriptors. Included is selected information on government revenues, property taxes, and debts, and expenditures on education, highways, public welfare, health and hospitals, and police and fire, as well as information on births, deaths, schooling, labor force, employment, family income, family characteristics, marriage, divorce, electoral votes, and housing characteristics. Additional variables provide information on manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, banking, mineral industries, farm population, agriculture, crime, and weather. The data were received from the Census Bureau as five separate files and were merged into one file. See also the related data collections, COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: CITY DATA, 1944-1977 (ICPSR 7735), and COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK [UNITED STATES] CONSOLIDATED FILE: COUNTY DATA, 1947-1977 (ICPSR 7736).