Description & Citation--Study No. 6031

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

06031

Title:

Revised Estimates of the Population of Counties by Age, Sex, and Race [United States]: 1980-1989

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Bibliographic Citation:

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Revised Estimates of the Population of Counties by Age, Sex, and Race [United States]: 1980-1989. ICPSR06031-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-01-20. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06031.v2

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection includes revised estimates of the population of the 3,141 counties in the United States as defined in the 1990 Census. Data are grouped by five-year age category (ages 0-4, 5-9, etc.), sex, and modified race (White, Black, other) for each year from 1980 to 1989, beginning with July 1, 1980. The revised estimates were developed by interpolating from modified Decennial Census files for both 1980 and 1990.

Subject Terms:

census data, counties, population characteristics, population estimates, population trends

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 1980--1989

Data Types:

census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

(1) For related ICPSR studies see also COUNTY POPULATION ESTIMATES (PROVISIONAL) BY AGE, SEX, AND RACE: 1980-1982 (ICPSR 8419), COUNTY POPULATION ESTIMATES (EXPERIMENTAL) BY AGE, SEX, AND RACE: 1980, 1982 and 1984 (ICPSR 8721), and COUNTY POPULATION ESTIMATES (EXPERIMENTAL) BY AGE, SEX, AND RACE: 1980-1985 (ICPSR 9294). (2) Data are available for each of the 3,141 counties for each of ten years (31,410) observations.

Methodology

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

1993-05-13

Version History:

  • 2011-09-02 SAS, SPSS, and Stata setups have been added to this data collection.

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